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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 Neeka think she could help Tash out of his legal problems?
(a) She does not know.
(b) By helping him make better choices.
(c) By learning the law.
(d) By writing her congress person.

2. What does Jayjones say about black men?
(a) They should leave the United States.
(b) They need to learn to get along in white society.
(c) They should hunt just as they are hunted.
(d) They are hunted.

3. What does the narrator endure in order to get to where they are going?
(a) Rejection from the college.
(b) Hearing Miss Irene talk on and on.
(c) The pitying glaces of white people.
(d) A poor breakfast and long train and bus rides.

4. Why does going to a juvenile detention center seem appealing to Neeka?
(a) Because then her mother couldn't make her babysit.
(b) For some peace and quiet.
(c) She would be horrified to go to such a place.
(d) To show solidarity with Tash.

5. About what does Neeka complain?
(a) Her noisy family.
(b) Her brother doing something to get in prison.
(c) The way her mother pays more attention to her brothers.
(d) Her mother making her come with them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the girls make snow angels?

2. Why does Jayjones think black people have been falsely imprisoned?

3. Why does young Albert have to take off his wire-rimmed glasses?

4. Why is Tash moved?

5. What effect does Tupac's imprisonment have on him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens in May with the narrator and how does she feel about it?

2. Where is D going to live and what do the friends vow?

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

4. How was Tash as far as dating and who did he fall for right before he went to prison, what was the man like and what did Tash convince himself about the man?

5. What has D learned about her real mother and how does she feel about it?

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

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

8. How does Miss Irene react to the photographer in Chapter 15?

9. What does Neeka complain about on the way to the prison and what does she think she can do about it?

10. What does Tash ask Jayjones and what does Tash say is the first thing he is going to do when he leaves prison?

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