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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 does Tyrell's father tell him about speaking to reporters?
(a) He tells Tyrell to tell them to talk to him instead.
(b) He tells him to ask for money from them.
(c) He tells him to ask them for a job.
(d) He tells him not to speak to them.

2. What does Jennica realize at Tariq's funeral?
(a) That she wants to break up with Noodle and get out from under life with the Kings.
(b) That she wants to date Brick.
(c) That she wants to be friends with Tyrell.
(d) That she wants to go to church more.

3. Where is Melody during Tariq's funeral?
(a) In the church.
(b) Talking to the media.
(c) Working at the salon.
(d) Watching the coverage on television with Sheila.

4. What does Jennica tell Kimberly about Tariq?
(a) That she wishes she had never witnessed his death.
(b) That she loved him.
(c) That she did CPR on him.
(d) That Noodle hates Tariq.

5. Why does Tyrell believe his father hates him?
(a) Because Tyrell walked in on his father having sex with a woman who was not his mother years earlier.
(b) Because Tyrell knows his father has a huge gambling debt and is keeping it from his mother.
(c) Because Tyrell knows his father has lost his job and has not told his mother yet.
(d) Because Tyrell knows his father is secretly in the Kings gang.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Kimberly and Reverend Sloan do in his hotel room after Tariq's funeral?

2. What important question does Brick ask Sammy in Chapter 8?

3. Who does Tina go to when she gets hurt in Chapter 10?

4. What memory of Tariq does Tyrell think of as he waits for Brick in Chapter 13?

5. What does Sammy think Tyrell wants him to do when they are in the backseat of the car in Chapter 13?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Brick ask Sammy to do for him regarding Tyrell?

2. What makes Tyrell so sad about his memories of the day he and Tariq threw water balloons off the top of Tyrell's building?

3. Why does Junior feel animosity towards the Kings?

4. How does Jennica feel several days after Tariq's shooting?

5. What does Jennica say to the reporter who comes to the diner she works at to interview her the second time?

6. How does Tina react when her estranged father Terrence Johnson comes to her apartment for the first time after Tariq's funeral?

7. Who does Brick ask to go before the cameras and defend Tariq's memory?

8. What does Jennica ask Tyrell to do at Brick's party?

9. What did Tariq and Junior always used to share at lunch when they were in second grade together?

10. Why is Tyrell so scared on the way to the party Brick has forced him to go to with him and the other Kings?

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