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

2. What famous music hall and theater where many black musicians and comedians started their careers is mentioned in "Long Live Langston"?
(a) Chicago Theatre.
(b) The Apollo.
(c) Broadway Theatre.
(d) Ford's Theatre.

3. The author writes in "If" of planting what kind of roses "in your garden"?
(a) Long stem.
(b) Watercolor.
(c) Red.
(d) Thornless.

4. In the poem "If," the author writes "If I stood on tiptoe / reached up and sculpted / mountains from ____ / would you laugh out loud?"
(a) Clouds.
(b) Concrete.
(c) Stars.
(d) Clay.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the one thing Judianne says she learned from her mother in "Judianne Alexander"?

2. What is the name of the English teacher who encourages the students in the book?

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. Who "believes in praying for everybody and giving them the benefit of the doubt" according to Devon in "Devon Hope"?

5. The author describes painting a ribbon of what "on your windowsill" in "If"?

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