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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What refers to a famous time period in American history in which black writers, artists and musicians showcased their work in New York City?
(a) The Civil Rights Era.
(b) The Black Breakthrough.
(c) The Harlem Renaissance.
(d) The Manhattan Jazz Years.

3. What does the "S." in "Sterling S. Hughes" stand for?
(a) Samuel.
(b) Steven.
(c) Samson.
(d) Sanford.

4. What does the author claim to be by way of metaphor in the poem "Inside"?
(a) A frog.
(b) A tiger.
(c) A coconut.
(d) A tree.

5. Who does Tyrone say he had "figured him for a lightweight do-gooder who would last about five minutes in this neighborhood"?
(a) Raynard.
(b) Mr. Ward.
(c) Steve.
(d) Wesley.

6. What is one thing "these ladies know how to do" according to Tyrone in his commentary of "El Noche"?
(a) Be sassy and confrontational.
(b) Be warm and tender.
(c) Be spiteful and mean.
(d) Be soft and strong.

7. What is Lupe's last name?
(a) Diaz.
(b) Rodriguez.
(c) Algarin.
(d) Ramos.

8. What does Sterling play every Sunday in church in "Sterling S. Hughes"?
(a) Organ.
(b) Trumpet.
(c) Bagpipes.
(d) Guitar.

9. Where does Devon sneak off to when he tells his friends he's going to basketball practice in "Devon Hope"?
(a) The police station.
(b) The library.
(c) A park.
(d) Church.

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

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

12. Who was the author of "Home to Harlem" in 1928?
(a) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(b) T.S.Eliot.
(c) Claude McKay.
(d) Carl Sandburg.

13. What does Janelle refer to herself as in "Janelle Battle"?
(a) "Thighs 'R' Us."
(b) "250 Pounds of Heaven."
(c) "Full Figured Goddess."
(d) "Bootylicious."

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

15. Who is the only person who knows that Diondra has been drawing since she was a child in "Diondra Jordan"?
(a) Gloria.
(b) Tanisha.
(c) Lupe.
(d) Sheila.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Devon says that he feels like he's trying to break out of a box that says what, in "Devon"?

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

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 does Tanisha elect to draw portraits for a group project in "Tanisha Scott"?

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