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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. How does the day end in Chapter 1?
(a) D teasing Neeka's older brother.
(b) Neeka hurting her ankle.
(c) The narrator having dinner with her mother.
(d) D returning home.

2. What does the narrator endure in order to get to where they are going?
(a) Hearing Miss Irene talk on and on.
(b) A poor breakfast and long train and bus rides.
(c) Rejection from the college.
(d) The pitying glaces of white people.

3. What does D say about a counselor's statement in a group home?
(a) The counselor says that D has more potential than any child there.
(b) The counselor says that D is wonderful.
(c) The counselor says that D is no good.
(d) The counselor says that D's kind of child is a throwaway kid.

4. Why does Jayjones think black people have been falsely imprisoned?
(a) They can't afford good lawyers.
(b) They are not given fair trials because the system is too overloaded.
(c) He does not know why.
(d) Racism.

5. Who took D Foster away before Tupac was shot a second time?
(a) Her grandmother.
(b) Her biological mother.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her foster mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what does Neeka tease D when D returns in a few days with a jump rope?

2. What does D say to Neeka and the narrator when they meet and they ask about her family?

3. What does D think one needs to find in life?

4. Where does D tell them they are going?

5. Where do the girls make snow angels?

(see the answer key)

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