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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 does Janelle daydream as her last name in "Janelle Battle"?
(a) Reynolds.
(b) Smith.
(c) Hope.
(d) Martin.

2. In the poem "Mirror, Mirror," the author describes who meeting in the mirror?
(a) Brothers.
(b) Enemies.
(c) Sisters.
(d) Lovers.

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

4. Who is the author of "God's Trombones"?
(a) Thomas Hardy.
(b) Evelyn Waugh.
(c) James Weldon Johnson.
(d) F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the "S." in "Sterling S. Hughes" stand for?

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

3. Who "tries to act like he's not even interested in school, like there's no point in studying hard, or dreaming about tomorrow, or bothering to graduate" in "Wesley Bad Boy Boone"?

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 wrote "Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide"?

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