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

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

3. Who is Sly?
(a) A masculine tough man.
(b) A cop.
(c) An effeminate gay man.
(d) A lawyer.

4. What does the narrator say is the effect of Tash's music?
(a) It made ladies cry.
(b) She does not mention Tash's music.
(c) It enlivened everyone.
(d) The lyrics bothered a lot of people.

5. What does D vow after hearing the counselor?
(a) To be the perfect child.
(b) To show the counselfor that she was tough.
(c) To find her birth father who would love her.
(d) To find her birth mother who would love her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does D ask one late night when she comes to the narrator's home?

2. What does Neeka want to attain?

3. Where does the narrator go with Miss Irene one Saturday in the summer?

4. What is behind the picture from the narrator's mother?

5. Who is Flo?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Tash tell Jayjones about crime?

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

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

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

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

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

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