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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9 through 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the narrator and Neeka in May?
(a) They both turn 16.
(b) They are arrested for loitering.
(c) They graduate from high school.
(d) They both turn 12.

2. What does Tupac's death force the narrator to consider?
(a) D's influence on her life.
(b) How wonderful life is.
(c) Whether guns should be outlawed.
(d) D's bad choices.

3. What does the narrator compare herself to regarding her height?
(a) She is taller than her mother or father.
(b) She is taller than D or Neeka.
(c) She is as tall as her older brother.
(d) She is as tall as Wilt Chamberlain.

4. What is the narrator's mother like?
(a) Nice enough but standoffish.
(b) Loving but is mostly gone.
(c) A drug addict.
(d) An alcoholic.

5. What does the narrator think Mama is thinking of when Mama looks sadly out the window?
(a) Of getting out of that neighborhood.
(b) Of the family the Mama was raised in.
(c) Of the narrator's father.
(d) Of what could have been.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is D's foster mother's name?

2. What does D say is the reason she came to the block where Neeka and the narrator are?

3. In Chapter 1, to where does the narrator flashback?

4. Where was Tupac's mother when she was pregnant with him?

5. For what is Jayjones known?

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