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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of games are played at the bar?
(a) Poker.
(b) Pool.
(c) Bowling.
(d) Aces.

2. What are Jazmin's parents doing when they decide on the spelling of Jazmin's name?
(a) Timing her contractions.
(b) Cooking dinner.
(c) Bathing CeCe.
(d) Eating dinner.

3. For what does Jazmin ask the people in the park?
(a) A pen.
(b) Paper.
(c) Money to buy paper.
(d) A pencil.

4. What type of sweater does Jazmin wear?
(a) Turtle neck.
(b) Midriff.
(c) Scoop-necked.
(d) Cable knit.

5. How old is CeCe when Jazmin is born?
(a) Four.
(b) Ten.
(c) Three.
(d) Six.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of jeans did Jazmin wear?

2. Which photo of Jabari made Jazmin laugh?

3. What emotion does Jazmin feel as she is writing?

4. Who is Aunt Sarah?

5. With what does Jazmin say she was born?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jazmin know the man who gets off the bus is not her father?

2. Describe how CeCe and Jazmin got from their foster home to their mother's home when they ran away.

3. What types of businesses does Amsterdam Avenue have?

4. What are Jazmin's parents arguing about the night before she is born?

5. Why does Jazmin's father want her name spelled as it is?

6. Describe the street where Jazmin is sitting.

7. Why does Jazmin like the stoop?

8. What phrase is it that Jazmin believes she'll have to go through life saying?

9. When does Jazmin think that people will learn to spell her name correctly?

10. Why does Jazmin think she is unattractive?

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