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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 real name of Glamour Girl, one of Jade's partners in Mr. Flores's Spanish class?

2. After the mentor/mentee trip in Chapter 28, what do both Jade and Maxine order at the restaurant afterwards?

3. Why did Jade's mother get fired from her job at Emanuel Hospital?

4. What does Jade do after Maxine enters into her house?

5. What does Maxine gift to Jade?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the narrative point of view in the novel?

2. In Chapter 24, what does Jade's mother leave next to the phone?

3. How does the structure of the novel help readers understand Jade's characterization?

4. What does Jade do when she enters into the library for the first Woman to Woman meeting?

5. When Lee Lee comes over to Jade's house after school in Chapter 6, what do they talk about?

6. What does Mrs. Parker tell Jade will happen if she completes the Woman to Woman mentorship program?

7. In Chapter 16, what does Sam do to make up for missing Jade's birthday?

8. In Chapter 15, what does Jade take from her mother's closet?

9. In Chapter 28, why does Maxine need to step away from the group when they are at the Portland Museum of Art for a Woman to Woman mentor/mentee trip?

10. In Chapter 13, what reason does Maxine give for missing her one-on-one meeting with Jade?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay describing and then analyzing Ms. Butler's relationship to her own daughter throughout the novel. What does she want for her daughter and is it the same thing that Jade wants? How does she impact Jade's life?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay describing and analyzing what you think it means to piece oneself together. How does Jade "come apart" and then piece herself back together again? What scenes from the text show this unraveling and remaking?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay analyzing Jade's relationship with Lee Lee. How would you describe their relationship? What is the significance of their relationship? How do they relate to each other?

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