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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Neeka resentful on the trip?
(a) She does not feel well.
(b) She was supposed to go to a birthday party that day.
(c) She has to watch her two younger brothers.
(d) She was supposed to go to the movies with a boy that day.

2. What effect does Tupac's imprisonment have on him?
(a) It sends him into deep depression.
(b) It makes him decide to change his life.
(c) It numbs him.
(d) It enrages him.

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

4. To what does the narrator relate Tupac's arrest?
(a) To Mandela's arrest.
(b) To the arrest of others in Queens.
(c) To Mahatma Gandhi's arrest.
(d) To how slaves were brutalized.

5. What does Neeka want to do?
(a) Become a model.
(b) Become an actress.
(c) Become a rapper like Tupac.
(d) Become a law or math professor.

6. What quality does Neeka want to have?
(a) Wisdom.
(b) Sex appeal.
(c) She does not say.
(d) Integrity.

7. Who is Daneeka Lucy Jones?
(a) Neeka's sister-in-law.
(b) The narrator's sister-in-law.
(c) The narrator.
(d) Neeka.

8. How does Tash refer to himself?
(a) Sister.
(b) The Queen.
(c) The Princess.
(d) Tash.

9. Where does the narrator go with Miss Irene one Saturday in the summer?
(a) To see Neeka's father in a hospital.
(b) To the amphiteater where she had such an emotional experience.
(c) To interview at a college.
(d) To visit Tash in prison.

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

11. What does the narrator endure in order to get to where they are going?
(a) Hearing Miss Irene talk on and on.
(b) A poor breakfast and long train and bus rides.
(c) The pitying glaces of white people.
(d) Rejection from the college.

12. Upon what does the narrator remark concerning the beautiful day?
(a) It is ironic that it is such a beautiful day considering where they are going.
(b) She hopes all Neeka's days will be this beautiful.
(c) She can't wait for Tupac to get out of prison and experience such a beautiful day.
(d) She can't imagine seeing the day through prison bars.

13. When does Tash expect to be out?
(a) The end of summer.
(b) Within 2 years.
(c) He has no expectations.
(d) In a week.

14. What is behind the picture from the narrator's mother?
(a) 20 dollars.
(b) A letter from her father.
(c) A letter to her daughter.
(d) 10 dollars.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say about D's mother?

2. Why do some people take on D as a foster child?

3. What do Sly and his friend testify?

4. What is it about the East Side train that makes the narrator and Neeka's family uneasy?

5. Where does Jayjones say black men cannot be caught?

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