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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lupe, p. 146 to Tyrone, p. 156.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Self-Portrait: A Poem for my Father," the author writes "Love is not me being who" what?
(a) "I wish to be."
(b) "Everyone remembers."
(c) "The world wants."
(d) "You want."

2. In "Attendance," the author writes, "We are all here, / Leslie and Bad Boy, Lupe and" who?
(a) Raul.
(b) Steve.
(c) Tyrone.
(d) Sterling.

3. What does the poet write "is not a crime" in the poem "Doubtless"?
(a) Skateboarding.
(b) Love.
(c) Joy.
(d) Basketball.

4. What does Janelle say the kids call her behind her back in "Janelle Battle"?
(a) "Shamu the Whale."
(b) "The Jiggle Queen."
(c) "Battle of the Bulge."
(d) "Muffin Top."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What "hangs on the wall" in the poem "The Door"?

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

3. Lupe says that she wants to go to college far from who and his drinking buddies in "Lupe"?

4. 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?

5. Who does Devon say "hardly speaks, and he never hangs with any of the brothers I know" in "Devon Hope"?

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