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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 does Dasani notice about the discipline at the house?

2. How many times has Baby Lee-Lee been moved around in different homes?

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

4. When the Coates family returns home from the Department of Homeless Services’s office, what do they find?

5. Who does Chanel give her $800 of her tax refund to?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is gentrification?

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

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

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

9. Who is Miss Hester for Dasani?

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

Elliott writes, “Dasani is well versed in city politics, not because she follows the news. She is simply forced to notice what other children miss.” How much did you know about your city’s politics when you were Dasani’s age? In what other ways is Dasani forced to grow up quickly?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

How did you feel at the end of the book? What kind of trajectory do you see for Dasani and her siblings?

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