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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 Princess.
(b) Sister.
(c) Tash.
(d) The Queen.

2. What is it about the East Side train that makes the narrator and Neeka's family uneasy?
(a) The tracks are really rough.
(b) The train is swaying and making them a little seasick.
(c) The train is full of white people.
(d) Not knowing exactly where they are supposed to get off.

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

4. What does D learn that the court system has done?
(a) Approved Flo's adoption request.
(b) Approved D's real mother to take her.
(c) Revoked Flo's rights to be a foster mother.
(d) Decided to send D to her real father in another State.

5. Who is Sly?
(a) A cop.
(b) A masculine tough man.
(c) An effeminate gay man.
(d) A lawyer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator envy about Neeka?

2. For how long is Tupac sentenced?

3. About what does Neeka complain?

4. What do Sly and his friend testify?

5. Why is Tash moved?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does Tash tell Jayjones about crime?

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

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