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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 20 through 26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What quality does Neeka want to have?
(a) She does not say.
(b) Sex appeal.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Integrity.

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

3. Who arrives with swollen eyes from crying?
(a) No one.
(b) D.
(c) Jayjones.
(d) Sarenta.

4. How does Tash's recklessness get him in trouble?
(a) He loses his friends through it.
(b) He is easily led to crime.
(c) He falls in love with the wrong men.
(d) He gets in spats with the police.

5. Where does the narrator go with Miss Irene one Saturday in the summer?
(a) To visit Tash in prison.
(b) To the amphiteater where she had such an emotional experience.
(c) To interview at a college.
(d) To see Neeka's father in a hospital.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does D's mother believe?

2. How is Sly whenever Tash meets him?

3. What is D allowed to do during the day?

4. What does Neeka fear?

5. Why might the boys like D better than Neeka or the narrator?

(see the answer key)

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