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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 think Mama is thinking of when Mama looks sadly out the window?
(a) Of the family the Mama was raised in.
(b) Of what could have been.
(c) Of getting out of that neighborhood.
(d) Of the narrator's father.

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

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

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

5. How do the narrator and Neeka feel about D?
(a) Very fond.
(b) Snobbish towards her.
(c) Indifferent.
(d) Don't like her.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Tupac feel about his mother?

2. What is the narrator's mother like?

3. Who watches the three girls jump rope?

4. How does the day end in Chapter 1?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. For whom is Albert named and why does the narrator question this choice?

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

4. What other children are in Neeka's family and how many of them are there?

5. What does D say looking at Tupac does to her?

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

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

8. For what does the narrator have a reputation?

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

10. What does Tupac's death make the narrator think about and what is the rest of the book about?

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