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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16 through 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jayjones bring home for the three girls to eat?
(a) Hamburgers and fries.
(b) Cuban sandwiches.
(c) Fried chicken.
(d) Fish and chips.

2. Who is Sly?
(a) A lawyer.
(b) A masculine tough man.
(c) An effeminate gay man.
(d) A cop.

3. Who is Tash?
(a) Emmett's older brother who is in jail.
(b) A black minister who is too white.
(c) Emmett's father.
(d) A black man shot for no reason in a white neighborhood.

4. What do Neeka and the narrator decide?
(a) The baby brother is a lot of trouble.
(b) Everyone has to learn jump rope on her own.
(c) The sidewalk is too cracked to play hopscotch.
(d) Jacks are for babies.

5. Why are the narrator and Neeka jealous of D right off?
(a) Her clothes.
(b) Her freedom to roam the city.
(c) Her coppery hair.
(d) Her large family.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Jayjones get his nickname?

2. Why does young Albert have to take off his wire-rimmed glasses?

3. Of what does Jayjones accuse Neeka?

4. On what day are Neeka and the narrator outside?

5. To what point does the narration move forward in Chapter 10?

(see the answer key)

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