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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. What does Dasani consider school?

2. What kind of school does Dasani go to?

3. How do Chanel and Supreme meet?

4. What is Chanel and Supreme's salary per month?

5. What do the people declare Gracie Mansion as?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some difficulties the family faces in Chapter 10?

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

3. What are the family’s goals in Chapter 10?

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

5. What responsibilities does Dasani have in Chapter 1?

6. What school does Dasani go to in Chapter 2?

7. In Chapter 13, where does Chanel meet Supreme when they first see each other?

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

9. Who is “the lost generation”?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does America’s history of racism and Black disenfranchisement intersect with the story of Dasani’s family? What government policies and social inequities have impacted this family over time?

Essay Topic 2

What are the factors that caused Dasani to leave Hershey? What, if anything, could have prevented that outcome?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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