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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. What is Rocky's morning routine?
(a) Meeting with his team of managers.
(b) Bringing the bales of newspapers into his shop and arranging them in the racks.
(c) Talking to the press.
(d) Hiding his money in the safe.

2. How does Vernesha find out Tariq has been killed?
(a) One of Tariq's friends comes to tell her.
(b) She sees it on the news.
(c) The police come to her apartment to tell her.
(d) The Reverend Alabaster Sloan comes to tell her.

3. Who is Tariq's sister?
(a) Rosalita.
(b) Redeema.
(c) Tina.
(d) Vernesha.

4. How does Kimberly know Tariq?
(a) He was her cousin.
(b) He was her stepbrother.
(c) She used to babysit for him and Tina.
(d) She was in his class in school.

5. Why was Rocky running after Tariq?
(a) Rocky forgot to tell Tariq something.
(b) Tariq left his newspaper.
(c) Tariq left his change and Rocky wanted to return it to him.
(d) Tariq stole something from the shop.

Short Answer Questions

1. What continually annoys Jennica about hanging around with Noodle?

2. What is Brick obsessed with regarding the gun he thinks he saw Tariq holding when he died?

3. What does Tina see Vernesha do with their phone in frustration?

4. Who is Will's stepfather?

5. What street does Tariq's shooting take place on?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Steve Connors think about the importance of appearances and clothing when you are a black man?

2. What does Will's mother take away from him after Tariq's killing that makes him angry?

3. How does Steve Connors react when he finds out Will has gone down to Tariq's vigil?

4. What does Brick think about whether or not Tariq has a gun when he is shot?

5. What is the first thing Tyrell does when he hears there was a shooting on Peach Street?

6. What is Melody's strongest memory of Tariq?

7. What does Tina think about the sirens outside her open window on the night Tariq is killed?

8. What was the cause of Tariq Johnson's death?

9. Why does Rocky Fry feel guilty about Tariq's death?

10. Whose house does Jack Franklin go to to hide out and avoid all the media attention he receives after killing Tariq?

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