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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. Where is Dasani heading to at the beginning of Chapter 28?

2. What does Dasani notice about the discipline at the house?

3. What does Chanel need to pay once she gets paid her salary?

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

5. What color does Dasani pick her wardrobe in?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Who is Miss Hester for Dasani?

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

6. Michael Bloomberg's tenure as Mayor of New York City included an unfortunately conceived plan to purchase what item?

7. What is the Structural Racism in the novel, as shown in Chapter 40?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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