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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 does Neeka fear?
(a) Her mother finding out.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Being arrested.
(d) Being beaten or raped.

2. What is it about the East Side train that makes the narrator and Neeka's family uneasy?
(a) The train is full of white people.
(b) The train is swaying and making them a little seasick.
(c) Not knowing exactly where they are supposed to get off.
(d) The tracks are really rough.

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

4. Where does Jayjones say black men cannot be caught?
(a) In white neighborhoods.
(b) In expensive cars.
(c) In white nightclubs.
(d) Anywhere outside of their front door.

5. About what is the newspaper article that Mama is reading?
(a) Tupac's trial.
(b) A new set of posh condos being built down the street.
(c) Of the hisher rent limits being considered.
(d) About the inequality of the races in college success.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how long is Tupac sentenced?

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

3. What does Sly convince Tash to do?

4. How does Tash's recklessness get him in trouble?

5. Where did Tash play piano before going to prison?

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