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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say is the loudest sound in the world?
(a) The sound of a mother crying for her imprisoned son.
(b) The sound of the silence while waiting to be called in to see Tash.
(c) The soft sound of prison gates locking.
(d) The sound of a grown man crying from abuse in prison.

2. How does Tash refer to himself?
(a) Tash.
(b) Sister.
(c) The Queen.
(d) The Princess.

3. What does the narrator compare herself to regarding her height?
(a) She is as tall as Wilt Chamberlain.
(b) She is as tall as her older brother.
(c) She is taller than D or Neeka.
(d) She is taller than her mother or father.

4. Why do some people take on D as a foster child?
(a) For the government benefits.
(b) To make her work and keep the house.
(c) To abuse her.
(d) As a live in babysitter.

5. What do the three girls vow to do?
(a) Write D every day.
(b) Go to speak on Flo's behalf.
(c) Hide D.
(d) Stay friends forever.

6. Why does Randall not tell his side of the story?
(a) He is intimidated.
(b) He hates Tash now.
(c) He is dead.
(d) He is hospitalized.

7. Where does Tash spend a few weeks?
(a) Attica.
(b) Long Island.
(c) Rikers Island.
(d) Staten Island.

8. Where do the girls make snow angels?
(a) In the snow on the stage.
(b) They do not since the snow is not heavy enough.
(c) In front of their house on the sidewalk.
(d) In the grass by the bus stop.

9. Why is Tash imprisoned?
(a) For illegal drugs.
(b) For assault on a police officer.
(c) As an accomplice to assault and robbery.
(d) As an accomplish to murder.

10. What does D ask one late night when she comes to the narrator's home?
(a) To have something to eat.
(b) To borrow money.
(c) To sleep over.
(d) To get advice from the narrator's mother.

11. What does the narrator say Tash has not lost?
(a) His depressed shuffling.
(b) His stutter.
(c) His swagger or energy.
(d) Any weight.

12. Why does young Albert have to take off his wire-rimmed glasses?
(a) To go through the metal detector.
(b) They are fogging up because he is crying.
(c) He doesn't wear glasses.
(d) So he cannot give them to Tash to make a knife out of.

13. What does Neeka think she cannot find in her family?
(a) A man who will tolerate them.
(b) Serenity.
(c) Her Big Purpose.
(d) Popularity.

14. What do Sly and his friend testify?
(a) That Tash was in on the robbery.
(b) That Tash was the only one in on the robbery.
(c) That Tash is the one who kills Randall.
(d) That Tash has nothing to do with the robbery.

15. What is one thing Jayjones says black people cannot do?
(a) Sing in public.
(b) Walk too fast.
(c) Attend church in peace.
(d) Look at a cop in the eyes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator go with Miss Irene one Saturday in the summer?

2. What does D learn that the court system has done?

3. What does Neeka want to attain?

4. Why does going to a juvenile detention center seem appealing to Neeka?

5. How does Randall resemble Tash?

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