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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who shot and killed Trayvon Martin?
(a) Chris Marker.
(b) Sherman James.
(c) Zora Neale Hurston.
(d) George Zimmerman.

2. Where is the school described as being located in Chapter 1?
(a) On Broadway.
(b) On Steinway Street.
(c) On White Plains Road.
(d) On Jackson Street.

3. What is the name of the girl who sits behind the protagonist in the school room in Chapter 1?
(a) Mary Catherine.
(b) Maria.
(c) Sarah Anne.
(d) Michelle.

4. In a poetic monologue in Chapter 6, the author writes, "The hearts of my brothers are" what?
(a) "Broken."
(b) "Shining."
(c) "Healed."
(d) "Genuine."

5. The author writes in Chapter 6, "The prison is not a place you enter. It is" what?
(a) "A silence."
(b) "A place you die."
(c) "No place."
(d) "A hell."

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 5, the author writes, "You give yourself back until nothing's left but the dissolving blues of" what?

2. What was the song-and-dance caricature of blacks that developed later into the term "Jim Crow" in referring to African Americans?

3. What does the author's friend say when the author is questioned by the cashier in Chapter 3?

4. What phrase does the author describe trying to stamp from her mind in Chapter 6?

5. The author writes in Chapter 5, "Yesterday called to say we were together and you were" what?

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