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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where has Jayjones been exercising?
(a) No where.
(b) In the park.
(c) He snuck into a YMCA.
(d) On the escalator in the mall.

4. For what is Jayjones known?
(a) Being a straight A student.
(b) Playing basketball.
(c) Having a car.
(d) Playing football.

5. What makes the narrator jealous of D?
(a) Jayjones walks her to the bus stop.
(b) Jayjones asks her to the movies.
(c) D has a new dress.
(d) Neeka's other brother walks D to the bus stop.

6. What do Neeka and the narrator decide?
(a) Everyone has to learn jump rope on her own.
(b) The baby brother is a lot of trouble.
(c) The sidewalk is too cracked to play hopscotch.
(d) Jacks are for babies.

7. What does Brenda do with her baby in a song?
(a) Throws it in the garbage can.
(b) Lets the father take it.
(c) Raises it by herself.
(d) Gives it up for adoption.

8. In Chapter 1, to where does the narrator flashback?
(a) To the spring of 1993.
(b) To the winter of 1994.
(c) To the summer of 1994.
(d) To the summer of 1995.

9. What school does Jayjones attend?
(a) Grady High School.
(b) Washington School for the Arts.
(c) Lincoln High.
(d) He is out of school.

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

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

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

13. How do the narrator and Neeka know each other?
(a) Even though they live a few miles from each other they go to the same school.
(b) They live on the same block.
(c) They live across the hall from each other.
(d) Their mothers went to school together.

14. Of what is the rapper Tupac accused?
(a) Killing a taxi driver accidentally.
(b) Income tax evasion.
(c) Sexually abusing a young woman.
(d) Obscene lyrics.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Tupac do while he was in jail?

2. To what famous group did Tupac's mother belong?

3. What is D's foster mother's name?

4. What did confused people label Albert's namesake according to the narrator?

5. What does the narrator think Mama is thinking of when Mama looks sadly out the window?

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