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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the card game set up?
(a) In the living room.
(b) In the hallway.
(c) In the kitchen.
(d) In the bedroom.

2. What does Jazmin not wear when she wants to attract male attention?
(a) Makeup.
(b) Perfume.
(c) Her glasses.
(d) A coat.

3. At what does Jazmin find herself staring?
(a) Into space.
(b) The newspaper.
(c) J.D.'s dashiki.
(d) J.D.

4. What does Jazmin finally raid to get her paper?
(a) A trash can.
(b) The park's bathroom.
(c) Someone's purse.
(d) A library.

5. What sense does CeCe say Jazmin is developing?
(a) Sarcasm.
(b) Irony.
(c) Humor.
(d) Smell.

6. Where is Jazmin's mother?
(a) At work.
(b) Dead.
(c) In the hospital.
(d) At home.

7. To what jazz artist are Jazmin's parents listening?
(a) Dizzy Gillespie.
(b) Benny Goodman.
(c) John Coltrane.
(d) Duke Ellington.

8. What does Jazmin say does not exist?
(a) Memories of her childhood.
(b) Pictures of her as a child.
(c) Angels and UFO's.
(d) God.

9. What object reminds Jazmin of her father?
(a) A bus.
(b) A musician.
(c) A Cadillac.
(d) A beret.

10. What does Jazmin say that words are like?
(a) Rats.
(b) Concrete blocks.
(c) Rain.
(d) Mist.

11. How does Jazmin describe her hair?
(a) Nappy.
(b) Black.
(c) Straight.
(d) Red.

12. What do the people who Jazmin asks for paper do?
(a) Yell at her.
(b) Give her paper.
(c) Wave her away.
(d) Ignore her.

13. On what streets does Jazmin's family live when she is born?
(a) Lenox and 133rd.
(b) Lenox and 132nd.
(c) Leonard and 132nd.
(d) Leonard and 133rd.

14. Which photo of Jabari made Jazmin laugh?
(a) His kindergarten photo.
(b) His baby photo.
(c) His prom photo.
(d) His graduation photo.

15. What does CeCe not allow in her apartment?
(a) Beer.
(b) Men.
(c) Poker.
(d) Cussing.

Short Answer Questions

1. During what decade is the book written?

2. How does Jazmin say she has been sent to relatives?

3. What is Jazmin chasing?

4. How does Jazmin's father want to spell her name?

5. Who is CeCe?

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