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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. What bothers Tyrell about his happy memory concerning Tariq in Chapter 12?
(a) He got angry with Tariq and he should not have.
(b) He would like to be able to take care of Tina and he can not.
(c) He called Tariq's mother a bad name and he feels remorseful.
(d) He can not remember the joke Tariq told that got them laughing so hard.

2. What is Tyrell thinking about as he waits for Brick to pick him up in Chapter 13?
(a) What kind of job he should apply for.
(b) Where he should go to college.
(c) Who he can rob.
(d) Who he can ask for advice on how to stay out of the Kings.

3. What do the Kings, Tyrell, and Jennica encounter on the way to Brick's party in Chapter 13?
(a) Tariq's mother.
(b) Tariq's father.
(c) The cops.
(d) A group of Stingers.

4. What door does Tina steal the key to in Chapter 8?
(a) Kimberly's door.
(b) Redeema's door.
(c) Tariq's door.
(d) Vernesha's door.

5. How does Jennica first meet Kimberly?
(a) She meets Kimberly at Tariq's apartment.
(b) She goes to Kimberly to get her hair cut.
(c) She meets Kimberly at the march.
(d) She meets Kimberly at the diner.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did not have a sleeping bag so the boys needed to share when Tyrell and the others were young?

2. What thought about Tariq is Jennica finding it hard to shake in Chapter 11?

3. What does Tina find in Tariq's room that she hurts herself with?

4. What is Redeema's impression of Tariq's father, Terrence?

5. Besides, her mother, who does Tina ask for to help her when she hurts herself in Chapter 10?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Junior feel animosity towards the Kings?

2. Who does Brick ask to go before the cameras and defend Tariq's memory?

3. How does Jennica feel several days after Tariq's shooting?

4. What did Tariq and Brick have in common that was the basis of their unique bond?

5. What does Jennica ask Tyrell to do at Brick's party?

6. Why is Tyrell so scared on the way to the party Brick has forced him to go to with him and the other Kings?

7. How does Rocky Fry feel about the way the police question him following Tariq's killing?

8. Why does Jennica think the cops never pull a car that Brick is in over?

9. What does Redeema tell Vernesha about letting Terrence back into their lives?

10. Where does Melody volunteer and what happens when she goes to her volunteer position for the first time after Tariq's death?

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