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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 movie is Dasani watching in the Hershey School theater?

2. What holiday weekend is it in the beginning of Chapter 37?

3. Houseparents are hired to oversee how many students in a family home?

4. Who owns the high school family home that Dasani moves into?

5. What are Chanel and Supreme required to take while in a treatment program?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Where does Dasani go for sanctuary in Chapter 30?

3. Chapter 23 opens on who's nightmare of their childhood?

4. In Chapter 24, where is the new shelter where Dasani has to move into?

5. What is gentrification?

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

7. In Chapter 38, what is Dasani staring at in the mock courtroom?

8. What is the fate of Khaliq in Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City?

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

10. Dasani’s path to becoming the first member of her family to graduate from high school symbolizes what?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Does achieving conventional success require Dasani to disconnect from her family, culture, or identity? Is that a price worth paying, or even a fair price to ask?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the role of the author, Andrea Elliott, in reporting and writing this story. What are some of the ethical challenges of a project like this?

Essay Topic 3

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

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