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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Jayjones think he was hassled?
(a) Because he was a smart aleck.
(b) Because he is black.
(c) Because he was going up the down escalator.
(d) Because he knocked over a white boy in the ball game.

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

3. How many sets of twins does Neeka's family have?
(a) None.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) One.

4. What is the name of the game Neeka wants to play with a jump rope?
(a) Seven jump spin.
(b) Double Dutch.
(c) London Bridge.
(d) In Two, Out One.

5. In what movie does Tupac play a starring role?
(a) Juice.
(b) Jambala.
(c) Just Set Your Course.
(d) Snappin' Rappin'.

6. What does D say is the reason she came to the block where Neeka and the narrator are?
(a) Her aunt lives there.
(b) It is no gang territory.
(c) That was as far as her money would take her on the bus.
(d) The pretty trees.

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

8. Why might the boys like D better than Neeka or the narrator?
(a) D is maturing physically faster.
(b) D has more freedom than the other two.
(c) D is the new girl on the block.
(d) D knows how to flirt better.

9. What is D's foster mother's name?
(a) Flo.
(b) Edna.
(c) Lottie.
(d) Ida.

10. For whom is Neeka's brother Albert named?
(a) Albert Brooks.
(b) Albert Schweitzer.
(c) Albert Einstein.
(d) Albert Louis-Jean.

11. What reputation does the narrator have?
(a) She is dumb.
(b) She is a brainy nerd.
(c) She is selfish.
(d) She is athletic.

12. In Chapter 1, what are the girls doing in the beginning of the chapter?
(a) Watching music videos.
(b) Watching a basketball game.
(c) Listening to the radio.
(d) Watching gangs fight on the street.

13. What did Tupac's shooting cause some people to call him?
(a) A drug runner.
(b) A hate mongrel.
(c) An unlucky dude.
(d) A gangster.

14. How did the narrator see Tupac?
(a) As a truly great ball player.
(b) As a hero and survivor.
(c) As someone who wrote hateful songs.
(d) As a violent gang member.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator always doing?

2. What makes the narrator jealous of D?

3. Of what is the rapper Tupac accused?

4. What is Neeka's mother like?

5. What does Jayjones think will not help racism?

(see the answer keys)

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