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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 doesn't have chores.
(c) She unloads the dishes.
(d) She mops.

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

3. What does the Coates family eat in their home?
(a) Pasta.
(b) Pizza.
(c) Leftover Chinese.
(d) Oreos.

4. Dasani’s circumstances are largely the outcome of what?
(a) Not going to school.
(b) Obesity.
(c) Parental dysfunction.
(d) Crime.

5. In 2004, the Bloomberg administration adopted new policies intended to do what?
(a) Push the homeless to become more self-reliant.
(b) Push the homeless out.
(c) Put trash cans on every corner.
(d) Put stricter laws in place.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Dasani get to school?

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

3. The homeless children in New York is the highest number since what?

4. What is Chanel addicted to?

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

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