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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 object does King place on Khalil's chest that causes Rosalie to shout and to snatch the object away?
(a) A cigar.
(b) A bullet.
(c) A revolver.
(d) A gray handkerchief.

2. When Starr rightly accuses Khalil of selling crack cocaine, what two necessities does he say he had tired of choosing between?
(a) Lights and food.
(b) Milk money and bus fare.
(c) Food and gas.
(d) Heat and light.

3. What is the only word Starr can get out as she watches Khalil die beside her after he is shot?
(a) Stop.
(b) God.
(c) Please.
(d) No.

4. Who does Starr name as her very first crush?
(a) Harry Potter.
(b) Khalil.
(c) Tupac.
(d) Chris.

5. Just before he gets pulled over by the policeman, how many years does Khalil say it has been since Natasha's death?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 6.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Starr and her friends sing loudly, "Just get'cha head in the game" during the PE basketball game, what musical does Starr say they are referencing?

2. What name does Rosalie call Iesha at Khalil's funeral?

3. Who does Lisa call with an invitation to come over to her house after the sounds of machine guns have been heard in the neighborhood?

4. Who does Khalil tell Starr was the person who coined the THUG LIFE acronym?

5. How long after Khalil's death does his funeral take place?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the origin story of Seven's conception and how does it affect the family dynamic?

2. What reasons does Starr give for wondering if she should go to Khalil's funeral and for feeling like a phony once she does go?

3. What does Starr say she needs to figure out about her and Chris's relationship before they can go any further with their romance?

4. What does Starr reveal about the makeup of her family's religious beliefs in the opening chapters?

5. What dichotomy does Starr describe between her Garden Heights persona and her Williamson Prep persona?

6. What reasons does Starr give for keeping from Chris the fact that she had witnessed Khalil's murder?

7. What does Starr cite as the reason for her parents enrolling her in a private school in a rich neighborhood six years prior to the start of the novel's events?

8. What is the nature of Starr's relationship with King, Kenya's father?

9. What does Starr say she has always said she would do if she ever saw a black person killed just for being black and how does it contrast with her feelings now that she is actually in that position?

10. What action does Starr take that she names as a betrayal worse than dating a white boy and why?

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