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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 is the name of Bri's school?
2. In Chapter Twelve, what does Bri say is her favorite movie?
3. What is the title of the song Bri sings in Chapter Eight?
4. Why do the kids in the Garden love Bri's Aunt Pooh?
5. What does Bri call her mother?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter Seven, what does Bri sing about in her new song On the Come Up?
2. In Chapter One, what call is Bri waiting for and why is it so important to her?
3. In Chapter One, how does Bri feel about teachers at Midtown School of the Arts comparing her to her brother Trey, who graduated before her?
4. In Chapter Eight, when and why does Bri like listening to her father's music the most?
5. In Chapter Three, what does Bri's opponent in The Ring, Milez, say that makes Bri so angry?
6. In Chapter Four, what is Bri's recurring nightmare about?
7. In Chapter Nine, why does Bri feel she has to split her Sundays at church between sitting with Jay and sitting with her grandmother?
8. In Chapter Seven, why do some of the people at Maple Grove ridicule Trey, Bri's brother?
9. In Chapter Seven, why is Bri so upset that Aunt Pooh leaves before Bri records her song?
10. In Chapter Seven, what word that Long and Tate used against Bri when they slammed her to the ground continues to haunt her, and why?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay analyzing Bri's range of reactions to the controversies "On the Come Up" gives rise to, including the petition a white mother of a student at her school begins circulating to have the song taken down from its hosting platform.
Essay Topic 2
How does Bri handle her changing feelings for both Malik and Curtis? Why do you think Bri chooses to be with Curtis in the end? Write an essay explaining your answer.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay analyzing how Miles's decision to embrace who he is, against his father Supreme's wishes, affects Bri's own choices about her ownership of her artistic path and career.
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