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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Dasani?
(a) 20.
(b) 10.
(c) 11.
(d) 12.

2. How many homeless children are in New York?
(a) 600.
(b) 300.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 22,000.

3. What is Dasani’s neighborhood called?
(a) Fort Sumpter.
(b) Fort Greene.
(c) Tustin.
(d) Anaheim.

4. How did the Mayor-elect rise to power?
(a) He denounces the city’s inequality.
(b) He has money.
(c) He has power.
(d) He was voted.

5. What is Dasani's first chore that she does around the house in Chapter 1?
(a) She changes, dresses and feeds Baby Lele.
(b) She mops.
(c) She doesn't have chores.
(d) She unloads the dishes.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Dasani get to school?

2. Where does the Coates family live at the beginning of the book?

3. Dasani’s circumstances are largely the outcome of what?

4. What lives in the rotting wall where the Coates family live?

5. What does Dasani call the metal detector and the tall, iron fence in her apartment complex?

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