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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. Which of the following is planted in the African American Heritage Garden?
(a) Collard greens.
(b) Black-eyed peas.
(c) Chickpeas.
(d) Yams.

2. What is the name of the local newspaper where C grows up?
(a) The ExPress.
(b) The Bee’s Wax.
(c) The Local News.
(d) The Bee’s Knees.

3. What figure is on the cotton candy cone C and Wayne share?
(a) Spider-Man.
(b) Wolverine.
(c) Superman.
(d) Batman.

4. As which of the following does the novel define “ambiguous loss” (70)?
(a) “Ability to use both hands that is taken away.”
(b) “When there is death but no body.”
(c) “Certainty about acquisition.”
(d) “A rhythm of loss and replacement that would endlessly repeat.”

5. Which of the following does Lu give Wayne?
(a) A kite.
(b) A Frisbee.
(c) A wiffle ball.
(d) A pogo stick.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of which of the following soaps does Cee’s father smell?

2. From which of the following does Jacinta come?

3. In which discipline does Cee’s father teach?

4. Which of the following schools does Cee attend?

5. In which of the following does Cee’s family vacation?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Cee’s first therapist’s office.

2. To what do Cee’s parents apply themselves while their children play at the beach?

3. Why does Cee assert a mixed-race person is supposed to be pretty?

4. What precipitates the fight that prompts C’s mother to send her to visit her father?

5. How does Cee’s brother understand No Man’s Land, and why?

6. What is the “gorgeous idiotic thing” Caleb does (67)?

7. What problem in Cee’s mother’s painting does Cee identify?

8. What advice is C given by a nurse at the hospital?

9. To what profession does C’s father turn after leaving her and her mother?

10. With what moniker does C describe the early attendees of her mother’s events?

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