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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 Jade's mother do for dinner that is different than usual in Chapter 64?

2. What type of pizza does Maxine order when she, Jade, Bailey, and Kira have their get together?

3. Where did Bailey, one of Maxine's friends, go to college?

4. How does Bailey describe Maxine when it comes to talking about relationships and sex?

5. How does the Woman to Woman event at Mia's gallery end?

Short Essay Questions

1. What event does Maxine plan at her apartment as a mentor/mentee bonding experience?

2. When Jade goes to Mr. Flores's classroom to ask him about the study abroad trip, what does she see he is watching on his computer?

3. What occurs between Jade and the saleswoman at the clothing store she and Sam go to in Chapter 32?

4. Once at the fundraiser, how does Jade feel?

5. What news is announced at the Winters' dinner table and how does Maxine respond to it?

6. In Chapter 52, what does Maxine say the Woman to Woman events cannot be centered around?

7. What does Jade do with the pictures she took from her walk with Lee Lee and Andrea?

8. In Chapter 57, how does Jade react when she realizes that Sam is not on the bus after returning from Costa Rica?

9. In Chapter 55, when Lee Lee, Andrea, and Jade watch a Black woman being stopped by white police officers, how do they respond?

10. In Chapter 76, what version of the story about York does Jade say she and many others believe?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay analyzing the term "artist" as described through Jade's perspective. How does Jade's relationship with language and art help define who she is and what she wants to do in life?

Essay Topic 2

Jade goes through many changes throughout the novel as she thinks about her city, school, and family. In what ways does Jade change and in what ways does she stay true to herself? What distracts Jade from understanding herself and what makes Jade feel whole, completely herself?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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