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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 say is the loudest sound in the world?
(a) The soft sound of prison gates locking.
(b) The sound of the silence while waiting to be called in to see Tash.
(c) The sound of a grown man crying from abuse in prison.
(d) The sound of a mother crying for her imprisoned son.

2. What do Sly and his friend testify?
(a) That Tash was in on the robbery.
(b) That Tash is the one who kills Randall.
(c) That Tash has nothing to do with the robbery.
(d) That Tash was the only one in on the robbery.

3. Why is Tash imprisoned?
(a) For illegal drugs.
(b) As an accomplice to assault and robbery.
(c) For assault on a police officer.
(d) As an accomplish to murder.

4. What does Neeka fear?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Being arrested.
(c) Her mother finding out.
(d) Being beaten or raped.

5. Who is Daneeka Lucy Jones?
(a) Neeka's sister-in-law.
(b) The narrator's sister-in-law.
(c) The narrator.
(d) Neeka.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say about the evidence against Tupac for sexual assault?

2. Where did Tash play piano before going to prison?

3. What does the narrator say Tash has not lost?

4. What does Sly convince Tash to do?

5. What does Neeka think she cannot find in her family?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Neeka's family do while visiting with Tash and what does Miss Irene say about his lawyer? What does Tash tell her?

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

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

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

5. What did Tash do at church before he went to prison?

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

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

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

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

10. What does Tash look like when he comes into the visitation area and how does he act?

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