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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Janelle Battle, p. 46 to Tyrone, p. 64.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Langston Hughes born?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1894.
(d) 1902.

2. What is the one thing Judianne says she learned from her mother in "Judianne Alexander"?
(a) How to clean.
(b) How to sew.
(c) How to garden.
(d) How to play bridge.

3. Where does Devon sneak off to when he tells his friends he's going to basketball practice in "Devon Hope"?
(a) The police station.
(b) Church.
(c) A park.
(d) The library.

4. In the poem "Inside," the author writes [I] "feel you poke me / with the sharp tip of your" what?
(a) "Piercing Gaze."
(b) "Sinister Intentions."
(c) "Booted words."
(d) "Vocal Knife."

5. What poet does Tyrone say sounds a lot like rap in "Tyrone Bitting"?
(a) Walt Whitman.
(b) Quincy Troupe.
(c) Dylan Thomas.
(d) Claude McKay.

Short Answer Questions

1. What caused the death of Leslie's mother in "Leslie Lucas"?

2. In "Attendance," the author writes, "We are all here, / Leslie and Bad Boy, Lupe and" who?

3. What is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the Deep South of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads?

4. What caused the death of Porscha Johnson's mother in the narrative?

5. Who does Judianne say she has "a thing for" in "Judianne Alexander"?

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