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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. To what does the narrator relate Tupac's arrest?
(a) To Mahatma Gandhi's arrest.
(b) To the arrest of others in Queens.
(c) To how slaves were brutalized.
(d) To Mandela's arrest.

2. What does the narrator compare herself to regarding her height?
(a) She is as tall as Wilt Chamberlain.
(b) She is taller than D or Neeka.
(c) She is taller than her mother or father.
(d) She is as tall as her older brother.

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

4. Where did Tash play piano before going to prison?
(a) For his school chorus.
(b) Church.
(c) A local nightclub.
(d) In his school orchestra.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Sly?

2. What does Neeka want to do?

3. What does Sly convince Tash to do?

4. What happens to Tupac when Chapter 10 opens?

5. What does D ask the narrator and Neeka one Friday night?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What do Neeka and the narrator do when they come home after being with D in Chapter 11?

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

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

8. What does Tash tell Jayjones about crime?

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

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

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