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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Maverick's favorite basketball team?
(a) The Bulls.
(b) The Spurs.
(c) The Lakers.
(d) The Celtics.

2. Where is Starr's first television interview held?
(a) In a hotel courtyard.
(b) In Grant Park.
(c) On the steps of the Los Angeles City Hall.
(d) Outside of the library.

3. Who calls Starr over at prom after Chris leaves her alone to go talk to his friends?
(a) Kenya.
(b) Ryan.
(c) Hailey.
(d) Maya.

4. When one of the policemen allows Maverick to rise from the sidewalk but tells him he will be keeping an eye on him, what name does he add to the end of his warning?
(a) Boy.
(b) Gangsta.
(c) Boss.
(d) Son.

5. What kind of hairstyle does Seven wear?
(a) Dreadlocks.
(b) An afro.
(c) A fade.
(d) A buzzcut.

6. What kind of people does Starr tell the television interviewer that she wishes the cops would stop making assumptions about?
(a) Young people.
(b) Civilians.
(c) Poor people.
(d) Black people.

7. Besides recognizing her walk, how does Chris know that it is Starr being interviewed on television even though her face is not shown?
(a) Her knees.
(b) The way she sits.
(c) Her voice.
(d) Her sneeze.

8. What quality does DeVante say is made up for by Chris's massive video game collection?
(a) His bad attitude.
(b) His bad manners.
(c) His whiteness.
(d) His lack of game.

9. What faction of the King Lords gang does Maverick ask to help guard his home and family after his home is attacked?
(a) Cedar Grove.
(b) Grape Street.
(c) Garden Heights.
(d) Riverton Hills.

10. During what class period do the protests start at Williamson Prep?
(a) 3rd.
(b) 6th.
(c) 4th.
(d) 1st.

11. Who does Hailey take to prom?
(a) DeVante.
(b) Luke.
(c) Ryan.
(d) Seven.

12. When an anonymous millionaire calls the television station right after Starr's television interview airs, who does Starr say she thinks the millionaire is?
(a) Oprah.
(b) Ellen.
(c) Tyler Perry.
(d) Obama.

13. What video game do Chris and DeVante spend all of their time together playing?
(a) Donkey Kong.
(b) World of Warcraft.
(c) Tiger Woods
(d) Madden.

14. What does April Ofrah say she will begin her work for Starr by doing?
(a) Getting a restraining order for her against Officer Cruise.
(b) Filing a lawsuit against the county on her behalf.
(c) Getting her a television interview.
(d) Renting her an office.

15. When Maverick thanks Black Jesus for helping Seven do something he himself did not do, what is it?
(a) Have safe sex throughout high school.
(b) Escape the projects.
(c) Avoid a criminal record.
(d) Get a high school diploma.

Short Answer Questions

1. Until she says it in her television interview, who is the only person Starr has told about Officer Cruise keeping a gun pointed at her until back-up had arrived?

2. Which one of Starr's friends at Williamson Prep has a pixie cut and stays in the school during the protest?

3. Who tells Iesha to kick Seven out of the house and causes him to have to move in with Maverick?

4. Kenya tells Starr that she should speak up about the injustice of Khalil's death because Starr has a chance to change the whole what?

5. Maverick tells Starr that a rage is passed down through the generations to every black man and that the rage had originated when the black men had been unable to stop what group from hurting their families?

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