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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4 through 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Neeka and the narrator doing?
(a) Sitting on the stoop talking.
(b) Playing jacks.
(c) Playing hopscotch.
(d) Teaching kids to jump rope.

2. What is D allowed to do during the day?
(a) Go anywhere on the bus.
(b) Only go to school and come home.
(c) She is not allowed to do anything, she is on house arrest.
(d) Go to school and stay for after school activities.

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

4. How does D feel about her mother?
(a) She admires her.
(b) She hates her.
(c) She doesn't know her mother.
(d) She has no feelings about her.

5. What shocks D's friends?
(a) To learn she is so impoverished.
(b) That she is leaving the city.
(c) That she doesn't care that Tupac is shot.
(d) That she swears at the white policeman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Tupac do while he was in jail?

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

3. What does Jayjones bring home for the three girls to eat?

4. How many children are in Neeka's family?

5. Of what is the rapper Tupac accused?

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