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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator envy about Neeka?
(a) Her family's money.
(b) Neeka's brilliance.
(c) Her perfect features.
(d) Her noisy family.

2. What do the three girls vow to do?
(a) Write D every day.
(b) Stay friends forever.
(c) Go to speak on Flo's behalf.
(d) Hide D.

3. Why does Jayjones think black people have been falsely imprisoned?
(a) They can't afford good lawyers.
(b) Racism.
(c) They are not given fair trials because the system is too overloaded.
(d) He does not know why.

4. What does Neeka say about Tash?
(a) At least he is out of drugs in prison.
(b) He has a bad temper, but would not do any more than slap a person.
(c) He would not hurt a fly.
(d) He is scary.

5. About what does Neeka complain?
(a) Her brother doing something to get in prison.
(b) Her mother making her come with them.
(c) Her noisy family.
(d) The way her mother pays more attention to her brothers.

6. Where does Jayjones say black men cannot be caught?
(a) Anywhere outside of their front door.
(b) In white neighborhoods.
(c) In white nightclubs.
(d) In expensive cars.

7. For how long is Tupac sentenced?
(a) 60 days.
(b) 1 year.
(c) Up to 4 1/2 years.
(d) 2 years.

8. What does Neeka's group share?
(a) Anger towards Tash for getting in there.
(b) Pictures.
(c) The prison food.
(d) A large, picnic-style lunch.

9. Who is Flo?
(a) D's real mother.
(b) A kind woman who does not want D for the government benefits.
(c) Neeka's mother.
(d) The narrator's mother.

10. Of what is Tash convinced about Sly?
(a) That he is gay.
(b) That he is a racist.
(c) That he is corrupt.
(d) That he is wealthy.

11. To what point does the narration move forward in Chapter 10?
(a) The next May.
(b) Three years later.
(c) November.
(d) Two years later.

12. What does the narrator say Tash has not lost?
(a) His swagger or energy.
(b) Any weight.
(c) His stutter.
(d) His depressed shuffling.

13. What does Jayjones say about black men?
(a) They are hunted.
(b) They need to learn to get along in white society.
(c) They should leave the United States.
(d) They should hunt just as they are hunted.

14. Who does Tash say he will repay?
(a) His brother.
(b) The judge who sent him there.
(c) Miss Irene.
(d) Tupac.

15. What happens to Tupac when Chapter 10 opens?
(a) He is sentenced to more time because of hitting a guard.
(b) He is attacked and severely injured in prison.
(c) He is let out of jail early.
(d) He learns his brother is arrested.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Tash imprisoned?

2. Who is Daneeka Lucy Jones?

3. What does the narrator say is the loudest sound in the world?

4. What does the narrator compare herself to regarding her height?

5. Who is Tash?

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