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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 do Tash's visitors have to go through?
(a) A metal detector.
(b) A brief lecture on what they can and can't do.
(c) A strip search.
(d) A lecture on the justice system.

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

3. Where does D tell them they are going?
(a) She does not tell them.
(b) D decides they should just stay in after dinner.
(c) Back to her house after dinner.
(d) No where.

4. What does the narrator say about D's mother?
(a) She is strange.
(b) She is French.
(c) She is white.
(d) She is extremely black.

5. When does Tash expect to be out?
(a) In a week.
(b) The end of summer.
(c) He has no expectations.
(d) Within 2 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the narrator hesitant about D's request?

2. How does Randall resemble Tash?

3. What does Sly convince Tash to do?

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

5. Where do the girls walk?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

9. What does Tash tell Jayjones about crime?

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

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