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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. In what grade was Barnett when she started playing basketball?

2. What was Sharanda's sentence in the "Prologue"?

3. When did Barnett graduate from college in Chapter 3?

4. Where did Barnett and Jazz live while their mother went to rehab?

5. In Chapter 7 in Tulia, Texas, what percent of the Black population was arrested in a drug bust based on false testimony?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 7, why did Sharanda not want anything to do with Julie Franklin's request to help her get drugs?

2. What did the feds want from Sharanda?

3. What was Barnett's life like when she moved to Dallas?

4. How was Sharanda's mother, Genice Stribling, injured in a car accident?

5. How did Evelyn and her girls get a house, and what was it like?

6. What struggles did Leland have, and how did he change?

7. What was Critical Race Theory, and what questions were Barnett and her classmates in a class on Critical Race Theory supposed to answer?

8. Who was Clarence Aaron?

9. How does Barnett describe what her mother was like in Chapter 1?

10. How did Barnett describe the town of Commerce and its history?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Any help Evelyn received for her addiction in prison she had to find or provide herself. How did Evelyn have to fight for resources and engineer her own recovery from addiction when she was in prison?

Essay Topic 2

Idioms are words that have a figurative, rather than a literal meaning. How does the author use idioms in the book? Why are the idioms sometimes difficult to understand? Why do the idioms often require research to understand their meaning?

Essay Topic 3

Barnett grew up in the small town of Fulbright. What was life like growing up in Fulbright? What is communicated about the importance of community through Barnett’s life there?

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