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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (195 - 262).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Vernesha find out Tariq has been killed?
(a) One of Tariq's friends comes to tell her.
(b) She sees it on the news.
(c) The police come to her apartment to tell her.
(d) The Reverend Alabaster Sloan comes to tell her.

2. Why does Tyrell believe his father hates him?
(a) Because Tyrell knows his father is secretly in the Kings gang.
(b) Because Tyrell knows his father has a huge gambling debt and is keeping it from his mother.
(c) Because Tyrell knows his father has lost his job and has not told his mother yet.
(d) Because Tyrell walked in on his father having sex with a woman who was not his mother years earlier.

3. What is the name of the gang Tariq was being pressured to join?
(a) The Crips.
(b) The Stingers.
(c) The Bloods.
(d) The Kings.

4. Where is Kimberly when she hears the sirens that she later realizes are for Tariq?
(a) In the clothes shop.
(b) On the street.
(c) In the hair salon.
(d) In the pizza shop.

5. What does Tariq's grandmother regret not throwing away before he died?
(a) Tariq's notebook.
(b) Tariq's gun.
(c) Tariq's knives.
(d) Red do-rags.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the things Vernesha tells the reporters?

2. What does Reverend Sloan decide to do when he hears about Tariq's death?

3. Where does Kimberly see Jennica again in Chapter 11?

4. Why does Reverend Alabaster Sloan feel guilty after Tariq's death?

5. What is Will's graffiti signature?

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