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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Winter and her friends drinking the night of her seventeenth birthday?
(a) Cristol.
(b) Captain and Coke.
(c) Zuma.
(d) Absolute and Alize.

2. What does Winter's father give her when she is born?
(a) A blessing.
(b) A diamond ring.
(c) A car.
(d) A gold locket.

3. Where does Winter go after she discovers Santiaga has been moved to another prison?
(a) The movies.
(b) Shopping.
(c) Sister Souljah's.
(d) Her mother's.

4. Santiaga buys a house in _________ for his family.
(a) The Hamptons.
(b) Long Island.
(c) Brooklyn.
(d) Manhattan.

5. Who is Winter's best customer at the group home?
(a) Lashay.
(b) Claudette.
(c) Noni.
(d) Rashida.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Sterling's real girlfriend?

2. Where is Winter's mother taken in Chapter 6?

3. Claudette, Winter's group home roommate, is from _____________.

4. What is the name of the Santiagas' housekeeper?

5. Where does Winter meet Midnight at a restaurant in Chapter 7?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what Winter is like in the first six chapters of the novel.

2. What happens when Winter visits her father's lawyer in Chapter 6?

3. What are Winter's feelings about Brooklyn?

4. What does Winter discover about her birthday celebration when she meets with Midnight in Chapter 7?

5. What happens to Winter and her family in the days after Santiaga is arrested?

6. What are the two most pressing issues facing Santiaga on a regular basis?

7. What happens when Winter returns from celebrating her seventeenth birthday with her Brooklyn friends?

8. What seems to be Winter's priorities as she meets with Midnight in Chapter 7?

9. What does the lawyer tell Winter and her mother after Mrs. Santiaga gets out of jail?

10. What happens when Winter goes back to Brooklyn to see her old friends in Chapter 8?

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