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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lupe, p. 65 to Tyrone, p. 81.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Janelle wishes she were tall and elegant like who, in "Janelle Battle"?
(a) Gloria.
(b) Lupe.
(c) Tanisha.
(d) Diondra.

3. Tanisha claims that she's so tired of people making a big deal over her good what in "Tanisha Scott"?
(a) Skin.
(b) Brain.
(c) Nails.
(d) Hair.

4. In "Leslie Lucas," Leslie claims she likes Sheryl Crow while the other kids at her school like who?
(a) Beyonce.
(b) Lauryn Hill.
(c) Queen Latifah.
(d) Janet Jackson.

5. With what other girls did Tanisha Scott ask Mr. Ward if they could do a group project?
(a) Chankara and Porscha.
(b) Porscha and Amy.
(c) Diondra and Janelle.
(d) Lupe and Chankara.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Janelle say the kids call her behind her back in "Janelle Battle"?

2. What is the buoy called in the poem "Common Ground"?

3. What is the name of Gloria's baby?

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. In the poem "Mirror, Mirror," the author describes who meeting in the mirror?

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