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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 is Dasani's ritual at school?

2. Where is the wine shop located where Chanel gets a drink?

3. Who knows for months that Chanel is getting high on opiates?

4. What did Supreme get his job in when he first married Chanel?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What sort of institution is Hershey? What sets it apart from other universities?

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

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

5. What happens when a child parentifies themselves?

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

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

8. How has Dasani’s school experience changed since the start of term?

9. What role does drug addiction play in Dasani’s situation in Chapter 14?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Does Invisible Child complicate the popular American refrain that you should “pull yourself up by your bootstraps”? Does it also challenge the argument that government aid is the only solution to poverty?

Essay Topic 2

Is Fort Greene one place or two separate neighborhoods? Discuss the upsides and downsides to gentrification, contrasting the wealthy part of Fort Greene with the area where Dasani lives.

Essay Topic 3

Dasani has a complicated relationship with her mother, Chanel—just as Chanel had with her own mother, Joanie. How might this mother-daughter dynamic help or hinder a family living on the edge?

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