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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 sound of the silence while waiting to be called in to see Tash.
(b) The soft sound of prison gates locking.
(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 is one thing Jayjones says black people cannot do?
(a) Walk too fast.
(b) Attend church in peace.
(c) Sing in public.
(d) Look at a cop in the eyes.

3. What does Jayjones say happens to black men in the wrong places?
(a) They are harrassed by white police.
(b) They are beaten by white gan?gs.
(c) Nothing.
(d) They are shot by police without even asking the men questions.

4. Why do some people take on D as a foster child?
(a) For the government benefits.
(b) As a live in babysitter.
(c) To abuse her.
(d) To make her work and keep the house.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Randall resemble Tash?

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

3. What happens to the narrator and Neeka in May?

4. What is the narrator doing when she says she feels whole for the first time?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does Tash tell Jayjones about crime?

8. What is D's history with foster homes?

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

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

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