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

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

3. What is behind the picture from the narrator's mother?
(a) 20 dollars.
(b) A letter to her daughter.
(c) 10 dollars.
(d) A letter from her father.

4. What does D say about a counselor's statement in a group home?
(a) The counselor says that D is no good.
(b) The counselor says that D has more potential than any child there.
(c) The counselor says that D's kind of child is a throwaway kid.
(d) The counselor says that D is wonderful.

5. What does the narrator say Tash has not lost?
(a) His swagger or energy.
(b) His depressed shuffling.
(c) Any weight.
(d) His stutter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Daneeka Lucy Jones?

2. What is the news about Tash?

3. What does Neeka say about Tash?

4. How does Neeka think she could help Tash out of his legal problems?

5. What does Neeka fear?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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