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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 happens after Dasani jabs a steak knife at her housemate?

2. What type of education did Supreme finally earn?

3. How does the Coates family survive in Auburn?

4. Who owns the high school family home that Dasani moves into?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is gentrification?

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

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

8. Who is Miss Hester for Dasani?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the importance of positive role models and their impact on Dasani’s life—especially African-American women like Faith Hester, the Brooklyn school teacher, or Julie Williams, the therapist at Milton Hershey School.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the role of the author, Andrea Elliott, in reporting and writing this story. What are some of the ethical challenges of a project like this?

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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