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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT an element of the place Deja says her family lives and sleeps?

2. What is ekmek, the food that is served at Sabeen's house during Deja's visit?

3. Mr. Schmidt tells the class that since 2001, America has been engaged in a war on what?

4. What does Sabeen do when Ben tells Deja and Sabeen to close their eyes before the plane hits the South Tower in the video?

5. Where does Deja take Leda and Ray after her own outburst toward her father Pop?

Short Essay Questions

1. What major realization does Deja have at the end of the day when Pop visits her school?

2. What are Deja's ideas about what each member of her family needs in order to be happy?

3. What is Deja's reason for feeling that she must skip school in order to visit the 9/11 Memorial on a weekday?

4. How does Deja feel about her father's mysterious illness?

5. For what reason does Deja keep from her father the fact that she has watched a video of a plane flying into one of the Twin Towers on 9/11?

6. What makes Ben a good choice of partner when Deja needs someone to go with her to the 9/11 Memorial?

7. How is the theme of guilt brought up within the dinner at Sabeen's house?

8. To what location is Deja referring when she says to Ben, "I've got to go see it. I've got to walk across the bridge" (165)?

9. What is the significance of Deja's realization that "History is alive" (101)?

10. What is the symbolism of mourning doves within the narrative?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the author's message regarding patriotism in Jewell Parker Rhodes's novel Towers Falling and what themes does the author employ in order to send these messages to the reader?

Essay Topic 2

Sensory details are used frequently by the author in order to create vivid pictures of each character's progression through the narrative. Choose three scenes in which sensory details are heavily used and discuss how the sensory details used by the author set a particular mood for each of the three scenes.

Essay Topic 3

State whether you think the portrayals of the main characters within Jewell Parker Rhodes's novel Towers Falling are believable or not. Be sure to discuss the reasons for your conclusions.

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