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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 did the Coates family take with them on their trip to Manhattan?

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

3. Who does the Administration for Children's Services (ACS) file a neglect petition against?

4. What does Dasani find difficult to do?

5. What did people call Dasani as a baby?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Miss Hester for Dasani?

2. What is gentrification?

3. What is the function of Partnership with Children? How effective is it?

4. Elliot says Dasani’s homelessness has set her adrift? Explain what she means by this.

5. What is methadone? What purpose does it serve? Who funds it?

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

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

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

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

10. What is symbolic about Dasani's graduation?

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 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 3

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?

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