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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jayjones bring home for the three girls to eat?
(a) Fish and chips.
(b) Hamburgers and fries.
(c) Cuban sandwiches.
(d) Fried chicken.

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

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

4. How did Tupac feel about his mother?
(a) He didn't respect her.
(b) He loved her very much.
(c) He hated her.
(d) He was indifferent to her.

5. What does Mama ask about D and her family?
(a) If they are wealthy.
(b) If they know Jesus.
(c) Where they came from and what they are like.
(d) If they go to church.

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

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

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

9. How did Jayjones get his nickname?
(a) He made it up himself.
(b) From his mother.
(c) From his father.
(d) From his ball t-shirt.

10. What does D say to Neeka and the narrator when they meet and they ask about her family?
(a) She is an only child.
(b) She has four brothers and a sister.
(c) She has two brothers.
(d) She has one brother and one sister.

11. How many times was Tupac shot the first time he was shot?
(a) Four.
(b) One.
(c) Five.
(d) Three.

12. How long have Neeka and the narrator known each other?
(a) For two years.
(b) Since they were babies.
(c) Four years.
(d) Six months.

13. What is Neeka's second brother's name?`
(a) Henry.
(b) Tash.
(c) Johnson.
(d) Vernon.

14. Where was Tupac's mother when she was pregnant with him?
(a) Living with his father.
(b) In Washington, D.C.
(c) The book doesn't say.
(d) In jail.

15. Why does the narrator call Neeka's second brother a queen?
(a) Because it makes him angry and he is fun to tease.
(b) To indicate he is gay.
(c) He likes to dress in female clothing but he dates women.
(d) He waves at cars like he is the Queen of England.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator's normal demeanor?

2. About what is the newspaper article that Mama is reading?

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

4. What does Tupac's death force the narrator to consider?

5. Why have several colleges contacted Jayjones?

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