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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 does Jazmin give her mother?
(a) Books.
(b) A blank book.
(c) A drink.
(d) Magazines.

2. What did Jazmin do when it would storm?
(a) Hide under the bed.
(b) Hide in the closet.
(c) Get in bed with her parents or CeCe.
(d) Go to Aunt Sarah's.

3. When was the only time Jazmin mother wanted to be home?
(a) Never.
(b) When a man was there.
(c) At suppertime.
(d) When Jazmin had homework.

4. What does Jazmin do with the last page of her notebook?
(a) Tears it out.
(b) Writes her old address on it.
(c) Leaves it blank.
(d) Writes her new address on it.

5. What does Jazmin want to give her mother?
(a) Healing.
(b) Her smile back.
(c) A good man.
(d) Her memory.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who bullies Jazmin?

2. Who joins the girls Christmas Eve?

3. What does Jazmin think should happen when on messes up a recipe?

4. To what does Jazmin compare Brenda?

5. What changes for Jazmin in this section?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jazmin handle her fear from her experience with the rat?

2. What type of mother does Jazmin say that her mother was?

3. Why are Jazmin and her sister moving?

4. Why does Jazmin skip school?

5. How does Jazmin feel about being a parent herself?

6. What happens to Jazmin at Carlton's apartment?

7. How does Jazmin handle Brenda's bullying?

8. How does CeCe decorate for Christmas?

9. What is the symbolism of Jazmin starting a new notebook when the girls move?

10. Why does Jazmin say that blacks and Jews have much in common?

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