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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who do Michael and Francis and their friends wait behind in line at the audition?
(a) A celebrity.
(b) Their father.
(c) Some middle-class white kids.
(d) Scatter and his grew.

2. What do Francis and Jelly bring into Desirea's almost every day?
(a) Video tapes.
(b) Beer.
(c) Drugs.
(d) Records.

3. What does Michael find and ponder in his mother's old suitcase?
(a) A notebook of hers from when she was a school girl.
(b) A picture of her and his father.
(c) A picture of her and Francis.
(d) An old pennant.

4. Who gets into a verbal altercation with the police at Desirea's in Part IV?
(a) Raj.
(b) Dru.
(c) Aisha.
(d) Francis.

5. What is Michael's one memory of his and Francis's father?
(a) Their father angry and drunk.
(b) Their father dancing with Francis.
(c) Their father in his casket.
(d) Their father begging for a job.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Aisha wake Michael up urgently in Part IV?

2. What does Jelly seem to sense from Michael when Jelly first arrives at Michael's and Ruth's apartment?

3. What does Michael wear to Jelly's audition?

4. Who arrives at Desirea's just as the party is winding up at 6 a.m. in Part IV?

5. Where does Jelly want to take Francis after the audition?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Michael's boss Manny say about the fact that Jelly is staying with him in Part III?

2. Why do Francis and Michael end up freezing and soaked in a bus shelter in Part IV?

3. What does Francis do when Scatter pulls his knife on Michael?

4. What feeling does Michael sense from Jelly in Part IV?

5. What does Michael remember about Jelly's "dress rehearsal"?

6. How does Anton act in the aftermath of his being badly beaten, which Michael recalls in Part III?

7. What really upsets Michael when he comes home to find a party at his house in Part III?

8. How does Jelly's audition go?

9. What does Aisha tell Michael is the meaning of the spelling of Jelly's name, "Djeli?"

10. How does Francis seem to feel about the car he and Jelly share?

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