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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13 through 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Neeka want to do?
(a) Become a rapper like Tupac.
(b) Become a model.
(c) Become an actress.
(d) Become a law or math professor.

2. Why is Neeka resentful on the trip?
(a) She does not feel well.
(b) She was supposed to go to a birthday party that day.
(c) She has to watch her two younger brothers.
(d) She was supposed to go to the movies with a boy that day.

3. Who is Tash?
(a) A black man shot for no reason in a white neighborhood.
(b) Emmett's older brother who is in jail.
(c) A black minister who is too white.
(d) Emmett's father.

4. What is Neeka's mother like?
(a) She is a drug addict.
(b) Overbearing but loving.
(c) Stern and unyielding.
(d) She is an alcoholic.

5. What do Neeka and the narrator hear on the radio?
(a) That Tupac is sentenced to 20 years.
(b) That Tupac is acquitted.
(c) That Tupac has been shot.
(d) That some white boys beat up a black kid on the ball court.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who arrives with swollen eyes from crying?

2. What did Tupac's shooting cause some people to call him?

3. For whom is Neeka's brother Albert named?

4. Why is the narrator hesitant about D's request?

5. How does Neeka's mother feel about D when she first meets her?

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