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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4 through 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What shocks D's friends?
(a) That she swears at the white policeman.
(b) To learn she is so impoverished.
(c) That she doesn't care that Tupac is shot.
(d) That she is leaving the city.

2. What is the name of the game Neeka wants to play with a jump rope?
(a) In Two, Out One.
(b) Seven jump spin.
(c) Double Dutch.
(d) London Bridge.

3. What makes the narrator jealous of D?
(a) Neeka's other brother walks D to the bus stop.
(b) Jayjones walks her to the bus stop.
(c) D has a new dress.
(d) Jayjones asks her to the movies.

4. How does D feel about her mother?
(a) She admires her.
(b) She has no feelings about her.
(c) She doesn't know her mother.
(d) She hates her.

5. What do Neeka and the narrator decide?
(a) Jacks are for babies.
(b) Everyone has to learn jump rope on her own.
(c) The sidewalk is too cracked to play hopscotch.
(d) The baby brother is a lot of trouble.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children are in Neeka's family?

2. How did Jayjones get his nickname?

3. What did confused people label Albert's namesake according to the narrator?

4. Of what does Jayjones accuse Neeka?

5. Where has Jayjones been exercising?

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