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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 is the narrator doing when she says she feels whole for the first time?
(a) Singing for the party guests.
(b) Snorting cocaine.
(c) Dancing with a very handsome young man.
(d) Standing on the stage in the amphitheater.

2. What does Neeka want to do?
(a) Become a law or math professor.
(b) Become a model.
(c) Become an actress.
(d) Become a rapper like Tupac.

3. Where does Jayjones say black men cannot be caught?
(a) In white nightclubs.
(b) In white neighborhoods.
(c) In expensive cars.
(d) Anywhere outside of their front door.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jayjones say happens to black men in the wrong places?

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

3. Where does Tash spend a few weeks?

4. What does Neeka fear?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does Jayjones explain to the younger children about what blacks need to do to stay out of trouble?

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

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

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