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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 walks the streets by invitation?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Troubles.
(c) Death.
(d) Joy.

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

3. What are doctors thinking about giving to Jazmin's mother?
(a) Counseling.
(b) More medication.
(c) Shock therapy.
(d) A dismissal.

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

5. Who is not in the street during the April 23 entry?
(a) Girls jumping rope.
(b) J.D.
(c) The ice cream man.
(d) The numbers runner.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Jazmin when a gunfight breaks out in her neighborhood?

2. For what does Jazmin ask the people in the park?

3. Of whom do T.C.'s eyes remind Jazmin?

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

5. Where do Jazmin's visions come to life?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Jazmin's father's Cadillac.

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

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

4. What happened to Jazmin's father?

5. Why is it that Jazmin says that CeCe is so good at poker?

6. Why does Jazmin think she is unattractive?

7. Describe the street where Jazmin is sitting.

8. What does CeCe hate for Jazmin to do?

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

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

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