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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Porscha Johnson, p. 157 to Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Diondra slip a drawing of into her dad's easy chair before leaving for school in "Diondra"?
(a) Michael Jackson.
(b) Bo Jackson.
(c) Sammy Sosa.
(d) B.B. King.

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

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

4. Who wrote "Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide"?
(a) Mirza Alakbar Sabir.
(b) Ghulam Mustafa Khan.
(c) Abdul Rahman Munif.
(d) Imamu Amiri Baraka.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the only classmate Tyrone says got a closeup in the paper in the commentary after the poem "The Door"?

2. Janelle wishes she had whose perfect complexion in "Janelle Battle"?

3. What church does Sterling say he attends in "Sterling S. Hughes"?

4. Where does Leslie say she grew up in "Leslie Lucas"?

5. What does Tyrone say Mr. Ward gave each of the students in the class in "Tyrone"?

(see the answer key)

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