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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How does D feel about her mother?
(a) She admires her.
(b) She has no feelings about her.
(c) She doesn't know her mother.
(d) She hates her.
2. What racial heritage is D?
(a) Mixed.
(b) Hispanic.
(c) Black.
(d) Caucasian.
3. What does Brenda do with her baby in a song?
(a) Gives it up for adoption.
(b) Raises it by herself.
(c) Throws it in the garbage can.
(d) Lets the father take it.
4. What is D's biggest dream?
(a) Her biological mother will come for her.
(b) She will marry a wealthy man.
(c) She will become a movie star.
(d) She will go to college.
5. What does Jayjones think will not help racism?
(a) Letting the white boys win the basketball pickup game.
(b) A suit and college degree.
(c) The class on racism that is required in school.
(d) The cops stopping black men for no reason.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the narrator wonder about Tupac and the song about Brenda?
2. In Chapter 1, what are the girls doing in the beginning of the chapter?
3. To what famous group did Tupac's mother belong?
4. Why have the narrator and Neeka not gone to visit D at her house?
5. What did Tupac's shooting cause some people to call him?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Jayjones bring home for the girls to eat and what does he say to D about the food?
2. What do the narrator and Neeka hear on the news about Tupac in Chapter 7 and how do the girls react? What does the narrator's mother say about it?
3. Who is Jayjones, why is he known at school and what does he want to do with his life?
4. What are D, the narrator, and Neeka doing in the opening of Chapter 1 and what is "Brenda's Got a Baby" about?
5. How does D describe herself and why do Neeka and the narrator envy her? What does D envy about Neeka?
6. Who is D's foster mother, what is she like, and why does D obey her?
7. What does the narrator think about Tupac and the song "Brenda's Got a Baby"?
8. When does D come back and what happens when the girls begin to jump rope?
9. What do the narrator and Neeka envy about D and what does Neeka ask D to bring the next time she comes?
10. What do the narrator and Neeka dream about when they listen to Tupac's music and how old are they?
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