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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Jazmin's favorite author?

2. What time does CeCe send Jazmin out to get cigarettes?

3. Who does Jazmin choose as her honorary father but not tell?

4. How do Jazmin and her mother converse?

5. Why does Jazmin not steal the dress?

Short Essay Questions

1. What sorts of things does Jazmin's mother worry about?

2. Why does Jazmin not want to go to see her mother?

3. To what different circumstances do the girls respond with laughter?

4. Through what stages does Jazmin's mother go before she gets put in the mental hospital?

5. What are Jazmin's feelings about moving?

6. What does Jazmin's school counselor have in mind for her future?

7. What is the symbolism of Jazmin starting a new notebook when the girls move?

8. How do the people at Jazmin's mother's hospital know who Jazmin is?

9. What is in the big box that CeCe and Jazmin give to Destinee?

10. What type of mother does Jazmin say that her mother was?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Consider the way that Jazmin handled the situation with Carlton. How else might Jazmin have handled this situation? What should she have done differently?

Essay Topic 2

What is Sister Church's role in the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast Jazmin's relationship with her mother with the relationship with her sister.

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