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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 is one thing Jayjones says black people cannot do?
(a) Look at a cop in the eyes.
(b) Sing in public.
(c) Attend church in peace.
(d) Walk too fast.

2. Why is Tash moved?
(a) He is harrassed about being gay and Tash cuts the man.
(b) He asked to get closer to his family.
(c) He is moved to a work camp.
(d) He is not moved.

3. What does D ask the narrator and Neeka one Friday night?
(a) If Tash was home yet.
(b) If D can come over for dinner.
(c) Why Neeka's mother looks down on her.
(d) If they would like to roam with her.

4. What does the narrator say about D's mother?
(a) She is strange.
(b) She is extremely black.
(c) She is French.
(d) She is white.

5. What do Tash's visitors have to go through?
(a) A strip search.
(b) A lecture on the justice system.
(c) A brief lecture on what they can and can't do.
(d) A metal detector.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator compare herself to regarding her height?

2. What does Jayjones say about black men?

3. Why is the narrator hesitant about D's request?

4. What does Jayjones say happens to black men in the wrong places?

5. What does D say about a counselor's statement in a group home?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jayjones explain to the younger children about what blacks need to do to stay out of trouble?

2. What does the narrator's mother give her for her birthday?

3. What does Neeka say she wants to do when she grows up?

4. Who was Tash's music teacher and what did he think of Tash's playing?

5. Where does D have the girls get off the bus and how do they feel about entering the place where she has brought them?

6. What did Sly and a friend of his do to Tash and Randall?

7. What happens to Tupac after he recovers, how does the narrator feel about the evidence and to what does she relate it?

8. In Chapter 11, what does D ask the narrator and Neeka if they want to do, what is their response?

9. What shocks Neeka and the narrator while listening to music and preparing for Tash's welcome home party? What do they learn about D?

10. How does Neeka's family enter the prison and how do they feel about the guards?

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