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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the people who Jazmin asks for paper do?

2. Who gave Jazmin and CeCe the key to their mother's apartment?

3. How old was Jazmin when she and CeCe ran away from their foster home?

4. How does Jazmin say she has been sent to relatives?

5. What does CeCe not allow in her apartment?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does CeCe hate for Jazmin to do?

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

7. What types of businesses does Amsterdam Avenue have?

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

9. Describe Timothy.

10. What is the lesson that Jazmin learns in the park?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the significance of pictures and memories in Jazmin's book. Although Jazmin had no one to take pictures of her as a child, how is she making her own pictures? How does she hold on to memories?

Essay Topic 2

What is Sister Church's role in the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast Jazmin's relationship with her mother with the relationship with her sister.

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