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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. How does Tash refer to himself?
(a) The Queen.
(b) Sister.
(c) Tash.
(d) The Princess.

2. Where do the girls walk?
(a) The the cousin's neighbor's house.
(b) To an ice cream store.
(c) To a large amphitheater in the park.
(d) To the basement where the party is going on.

3. Where do D, Neeka and the narrator get off the bus?
(a) At the mall.
(b) Near a dark city park.
(c) At a friend's house where there is a party.
(d) At D's cousin's house.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Sly?

2. Why does Randall not tell his side of the story?

3. About what does Neeka complain?

4. Upon what does the narrator remark concerning the beautiful day?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Who was Tash's music teacher and what did he think of Tash's playing?

10. How was Tash as far as dating and who did he fall for right before he went to prison, what was the man like and what did Tash convince himself about the man?

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