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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. What does the narrator wonder about Tupac and the song about Brenda?
(a) If Tupac was thinking of his own mother.
(b) If Tupac was found in a garbage can.
(c) If Tupac was the father of the baby.
(d) She doesn't really connect his personal life with the song.

2. Who watches the three girls jump rope?
(a) The older boys.
(b) The younger girls.
(c) Neeka's mother.
(d) The narrator's mother.

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

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

5. Why do Neeka and the narrator quit what they are doing?
(a) The kids won't listen to them.
(b) The ice cream truck pulls up.
(c) Neeka has to change her baby brother's diaper.
(d) Neeka's mother calls her home.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who took D Foster away before Tupac was shot a second time?

2. Why is Tash in jail?

3. What is Neeka's mother like?

4. Why does Jayjones think he was hassled?

5. What do Neeka and the narrator decide?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is D's foster mother, what is she like, and why does D obey her?

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

3. What do the narrator and Neeka envy about D and what does Neeka ask D to bring the next time she comes?

4. What are the narrator and Neeka trying to teach the younger children and how does that end?

5. Who is Neeka's other brother and why do Neeka and the narrator dislike the homophobic rap songs? Where is this brother?

6. What does the narrator say about Tupac Shakur and getting shot in the prologue?

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

8. What does Neeka interrogate D about when they meet and why did D come to their street?

9. What does Neeka say to Jayjones when he tells her what happened to him at the park?

10. What does Jayjones bring home for the girls to eat and what does he say to D about the food?

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