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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 are Chanel and Supreme required to take while in a treatment program?
(a) Food.
(b) Candy for the kids.
(c) Daily doses of methadone.
(d) Pills.

2. Dasani’s family boarded the ferry to go to the homeless shelter in what city?
(a) Columbia.
(b) Jordan.
(c) Manhattan.
(d) New Jersey.

3. Who does the Administration for Children's Services (ACS) file a neglect petition against?
(a) Dasani.
(b) Lele.
(c) Chanel and Supreme.
(d) Chanel.

4. What do Dasani's siblings compare about their foster families?
(a) How they dress.
(b) Their looks.
(c) How they eat.
(d) Notes.

5. How long does Chanel have to get her children back?
(a) 15 months.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 21 months.
(d) 2 months.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which characters is the last to be picked up by ACS?

2. Why does Dasani feel completely helpless?

3. When Chanel and Supreme have to go before a judge, what is the judge's compromise?

4. Elliott explains that to be poor is to experience what?

5. What is one of the most enjoyable tasks for Dasani at the house?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Miss Hester for Dasani?

2. What is the function of Partnership with Children? How effective is it?

3. What does it mean to have a home for Dasani? Is it just a roof overhead or something more? Explain.

4. What is symbolic about Dasani's graduation?

5. What are Chanel and Supreme’s reasons for not looking for an apartment in Chapter 22?

6. What is the Structural Racism in the novel, as shown in Chapter 40?

7. Michael Bloomberg's tenure as Mayor of New York City included an unfortunately conceived plan to purchase what item?

8. Elliot says Dasani’s homelessness has set her adrift? Explain what she means by this.

9. How do the homeless afford cell phones and Nintendos?

10. What technique does Dasani learn from Roxanne that she employs to avoid a fight?

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