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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. How does Jazmin describe her legs?
(a) Spindly legs.
(b) Chicken legs.
(c) Fat legs.
(d) Coke bottle legs.

2. How long has Jazmin lived at 2104 Amsterdam Avenue?
(a) All of her life.
(b) Only one month.
(c) Nearly one year.
(d) Two years, on two separate occasions.

3. How many times does Jazmin say she has lived in each borough of New York City?
(a) Twice.
(b) Once.
(c) Some never.
(d) Three times.

4. How old is Jazmin?
(a) Seven.
(b) Fourteen.
(c) Ten.
(d) Eighteen.

5. What does Aunt Sarah represent to Jazmin?
(a) Friendship.
(b) Kindness.
(c) Love.
(d) Her mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. During what decade is the book written?

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

3. Who is Aunt Sarah?

4. With what does Jazmin say she was born?

5. Who brings the gun to the poker party?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the people think that Jazmin is looking for in the trash cans?

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

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

4. Why are there no photos of Jazmin as a child?

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

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

7. How does CeCe convince the two men to stop fighting?

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

9. How does Jazmin say Amsterdam Avenue will fool you?

10. Why does Jazmin think she is unattractive?

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