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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 Supreme’s favorite board game?

2. What is Dasani's new favorite class?

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

4. Who is Auntie Joan?

5. Where do all of Dasani's siblings meet in New York City for a supervised visit with their parents?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the irony of the Welfare System in Chapter 40?

4. What role does school play in Dasani’s life in Chapter 23?

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

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

7. Who is Miss Hester for Dasani?

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

9. What is gentrification?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are the limits of a role model’s influence on a child’s life?

Essay Topic 2

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

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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