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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. In what percent of her high school class did Barnett graduate?

2. How old was Sharanda when she started her hair salon business?

3. In Chapter 3, when did Barnett lose faith that her mother could be cured?

4. How did C-Money die?

5. When was Barnett born?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Critical Race Theory, and what questions were Barnett and her classmates in a class on Critical Race Theory supposed to answer?

2. In Chapter 7, why did Sharanda not want anything to do with Julie Franklin's request to help her get drugs?

3. How did Evelyn and her girls get a house, and what was it like?

4. How did Barnett find a mentor to talk to about going to law school?

5. When did Evelyn and Billy marry, and where did they live?

6. How was Sharanda's mother, Genice Stribling, injured in a car accident?

7. How often was Sharanda allowed to see Clenesha after she went to prison, and why did she struggle with the visits?

8. What struggles did Leland have, and how did he change?

9. Why did Leland serve time in jail?

10. What did Barnett's experience with Red teach her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view in the book? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and people?

Essay Topic 2

There were many disparities in sentencing for cases involving drug offenses. What disparities were there in sentencing for cases involving drug offenses? What is communicated about injustice through those disparities?

Essay Topic 3

Sharanda cooked and crafted in order to keep her mind busy and make money. How did Sharanda use ingenuity in her cooking and craft projects?

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