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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. Who is on a violent rampage in Chapter 39?

2. What is Dasani staring at in Hershey's mock courtroom?

3. Why does Dasani go to detention?

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

5. What does Chanel ask for when seeing Miss Hester on the street?

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. Later in Chapter 37, where do all of Dasani's siblings meet?

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

4. Who is Miss Hester for Dasani?

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

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

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

8. What does the imagery of water represent in the book in Chapter 36?

9. How do readers see multigenerational poverty in this book?

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

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

Elliott writes that Dasani’s parents, depending on your perspective, are “either ‘working the system’ or ‘making ends meet.’” Did you share one of these opinions before you started reading? Did your opinion change after reading the book?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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