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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16 through 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do Neeka and the narrator quit what they are doing?
(a) Neeka's mother calls her home.
(b) The kids won't listen to them.
(c) The ice cream truck pulls up.
(d) Neeka has to change her baby brother's diaper.

2. What do Neeka and the narrator decide?
(a) The baby brother is a lot of trouble.
(b) Jacks are for babies.
(c) The sidewalk is too cracked to play hopscotch.
(d) Everyone has to learn jump rope on her own.

3. What does D ask one late night when she comes to the narrator's home?
(a) To sleep over.
(b) To have something to eat.
(c) To borrow money.
(d) To get advice from the narrator's mother.

4. What is the news about Tash?
(a) He has been given another year for bad behavior.
(b) He is being moved to another prison.
(c) He is dying.
(d) He is getting out of jail.

5. What does Brenda do with her baby in a song?
(a) Throws it in the garbage can.
(b) Raises it by herself.
(c) Lets the father take it.
(d) Gives it up for adoption.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why have the narrator and Neeka not gone to visit D at her house?

2. What do Sly and the other man do at Randall's?

3. How long have Neeka and the narrator known each other?

4. What does Neeka fear?

5. Where do the girls walk?

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