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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 color does Sister Church wear?
(a) Red.
(b) White.
(c) Black.
(d) Yellow.

2. Where do Jazmin's visions come to life?
(a) In libraries and bookstores.
(b) In her apartment.
(c) On the stoop.
(d) At school.

3. On what do Jazmin's parents agree?
(a) Her name.
(b) The spelling of her name.
(c) The spelling of CeCe's name.
(d) What room will be hers.

4. Where is Jazmin when a gunfight breaks out in her neighborhood?
(a) In her bedroom.
(b) At school.
(c) In the apartment vestibule.
(d) On the stoop.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jazmin say that words are like?

2. What does Jazmin's father do for a living?

3. How does Jazmin's mother want to spell her name?

4. What happens to Jazmin when she takes off her glasses?

5. At what does Jazmin find herself staring?

Short Essay Questions

1. What types of businesses does Amsterdam Avenue have?

2. To what weather related activity does Jazmin compare how her poems come to her?

3. Describe Jazmin's father's Cadillac.

4. Who is Aunt Sarah?

5. Why does Jazmin think that Jabari is lucky?

6. How does Jazmin dress when she hopes to attract male attention?

7. What is Jazmin's father's opinion of jazz?

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

9. Why does CeCe hear her parent's argument?

10. Why does T.C. pull the gun at the poker party?

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