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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Diondra Jordan p. 24 to Tyrone, p. 45.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Wesley say his friend wants to be, but doesn't think he'll live long enough to achieve it in "Wesley Bad Boy Boone"?
(a) A basketball player.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A football player.
(d) A hip-hop star.

3. Wesley says in "Wesley Bad Boy Boone" that if his friend "drops out and gets a J.O.B., he won't have any time to work on" what?
(a) His painting.
(b) His songs.
(c) His degree.
(d) His car.

4. Wesley describes writing a poem about what poet in "Wesley Bad Boy Boone"?
(a) Maya Angelou.
(b) Langston Hughes.
(c) Gwendolyn Brooks.
(d) Jupiter Hammon.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What book does Janelle slip onto Devon's desk in "Devon Hope"?

3. Diondra says that her dad is not enthused about her artwork and wishes she'd do what instead, in "Diondra Jordan"?

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

5. What has long been something of an "outsider" art form that exists somewhere outside the mainstream, having been conceived in the 1920s by African-Americans?

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