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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Devon, p. 82 to Tyrone, p. 101.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the English teacher who encourages the students in the book?
(a) Mr. Ward.
(b) Mr. Jones.
(c) Mr. Boone.
(d) Mr. Smith.

2. Whose eye does Devon describe catching in the cafeteria line in "Devon"?
(a) Diondra's.
(b) Chankara's.
(c) Tanisha's.
(d) Sheila's.

3. Diondra wishes she were as bold as who in "Diondra Jordan"?
(a) Charles.
(b) Earl.
(c) Raul.
(d) Steve.

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?
(a) Reggae.
(b) Jazz.
(c) Calypso.
(d) Blues.

5. 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 car.
(c) His degree.
(d) His songs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who poured a cupful of honey on Sterling's new shoes in "Sterling S. Hughes"?

2. What intersection in Harlem is described in "Long Live Langston"?

3. Whose poem does Janelle say she cannot get out of her head in "Janelle"?

4. In "Leslie Lucas," Leslie claims she likes Sheryl Crow while the other kids at her school like who?

5. Who does Leslie refer to as "the one girl in class almost nobody knows anything about" in "Leslie Lucas"?

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