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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator feel when Jayjones tells her about pretty girls and eating?
(a) She thinks it is funny.
(b) She feels angry.
(c) Inferior.
(d) She dislikes Jayjones.

2. When was the first time Tupac was shot?
(a) August, 1992.
(b) November, 1994.
(c) December, 1995.
(d) October, 1993.

3. Of what does Jayjones accuse Neeka?
(a) Of doing something that made the cop bother him.
(b) Of wanting him to be someone he is not.
(c) Of sounding like their mother.
(d) Of wanting him to become too white.

4. 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 across the hall from each other.
(c) Their mothers went to school together.
(d) They live on the same block.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On what day are Neeka and the narrator outside?

2. What does Jayjones tell D about pretty girls and eating?

3. What does Brenda do with her baby in a song?

4. What does D say is the reason she came to the block where Neeka and the narrator are?

5. In Chapter 1, to where does the narrator flashback?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the narrator and Neeka dream about when they listen to Tupac's music and how old are they?

2. How long has the narrator known Neeka and how did they meet D?

3. What are D, the narrator, and Neeka doing in the opening of Chapter 1 and what is "Brenda's Got a Baby" about?

4. When does D come back and what happens when the girls begin to jump rope?

5. How do the narrator and Neeka feel about Tupac?

6. What do the narrator and Neeka hear on the news about Tupac in Chapter 7 and how do the girls react? What does the narrator's mother say about it?

7. How does D describe herself and why do Neeka and the narrator envy her? What does D envy about Neeka?

8. What does Jayjones tell the girls about him and Tupac?

9. What is Neeka's mother like, what is her name and how does she feel about D when she first meets D?

10. What does the narrator's mother question her about concerning D, what is the narrator's response and then her mother's response to the narrator's answer?

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