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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many New Yorkers are living near or below the poverty line?
(a) 2 million.
(b) 1 million.
(c) Almost half.
(d) A few.

2. What does Dasani call the metal detector and the tall, iron fence in her apartment complex?
(a) The jail.
(b) The fence.
(c) The tall thing.
(d) The cast iron.

3. Who is Faith Hester?
(a) A caseworker.
(b) A therpaist.
(c) A teacher at the Susan S. McKinney Secondary School of the Art.
(d) A friend.

4. What does Dasani consider school?
(a) A instrusive space.
(b) A place to get high.
(c) A refuge.
(d) A hideout.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Dasani?

2. Dasani is well versed in which topic at school?

3. How does Dasani get to school?

4. What do the Coates children in the Chapter 1 sleep in?

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

(see the answer key)

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