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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 happens after Tupac recovers from being shot?
(a) He moves to California.
(b) He writes a rap song about racism and the justice system
(c) He is sent to prison.
(d) He decides to sue the girl who accuses him.

2. What happens to the narrator and Neeka in May?
(a) They are arrested for loitering.
(b) They both turn 16.
(c) They graduate from high school.
(d) They both turn 12.

3. Why is the narrator hesitant about D's request?
(a) She doesn't have the subway fare.
(b) She is supposed to babysit.
(c) She is not allowed to do what D asks.
(d) She knows her mother does not like D and would not invite her to dinner.

4. What does Neeka want to do?
(a) Become a law or math professor.
(b) Become a model.
(c) Become an actress.
(d) Become a rapper like Tupac.

5. What does Neeka think she cannot find in her family?
(a) Her Big Purpose.
(b) Popularity.
(c) A man who will tolerate them.
(d) Serenity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do D, Neeka and the narrator get off the bus?

2. What does Neeka's group share?

3. Why do some people take on D as a foster child?

4. What do Sly and the other man do at Randall's?

5. What does the narrator say is the effect of Tash's music?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How does the narrator feel about the amphitheater and what do the girls do on the stage?

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

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