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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 does Jazmin want to tell the welfare officer is broken?

2. What does Jazmin plan to call her novel?

3. What does Jazmin give her mother?

4. What started Jazmin's mother's downward spirals?

5. What grades does Jazmin make?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jazmin pretend she is doing when she is actually moving?

2. Describe the man who tries to get Jazmin's attention.

3. What does Jazmin laugh about that Sophie thinks is strange?

4. What happened after Jazmin's father died?

5. What are Jazmin's feelings about moving?

6. What is in the big box that CeCe and Jazmin give to Destinee?

7. Why does Jazmin not want to go to see her mother?

8. What is the one thing that other girls have that Jazmin wishes that she had as well?

9. Why does Jazmin skip school?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Consider the way that Jazmin handled herself when faced with Brenda the bully. Do you think that Jazmin handled this situation properly? What might she have done differently?

Essay Topic 3

Consider the theme of racism as presented in the novel. How is Jazmin impacted by others' opinion of her based on her skin color? How does she try to overcome this bias?

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