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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the shelter, Dasani spends countless hours with her siblings playing what?

2. What is Jenedra's job?

3. What does Chanel have to prove at the end of Chapter 12?

4. Chanel and Supreme talked of starting a youth center that would teach the Five Percent ethos known as what?

5. What is the Five Percent Nation?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Dasani want to attend the Milton Hershey school?

2. Chanel is what type of a mother in Chapter 1?

3. Where does Dasani and her family live in Chapter 1? Describe this place and the neighborhood/school?

4. What is the irony of the characters' names in Chapter 13?

5. What extracurricular activities at Hershey does Dasani enjoy?

6. What people, other than Desani, are involved in the novel? What are their relationships?

7. What are Dasani’s goals in Chapter 11?

8. What role does drug addiction play in Dasani’s situation?

9. What do social workers represent to Dasani in Chapter 14?

10. What do Dasani and the children sleep on in Auburn?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Should Chanel and Supreme have lost custody of their children? In what ways might the child-protection system help a family like Dasani’s? How does the system fall short, or even harm families?

Essay Topic 2

Does proximity to wealth make Dasani’s life better or more difficult?

Essay Topic 3

Why is this book called Invisible Child? What makes these children-and their parents-unseen?

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