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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does D ask the narrator and Neeka one Friday night?
(a) Why Neeka's mother looks down on her.
(b) If D can come over for dinner.
(c) If Tash was home yet.
(d) If they would like to roam with her.

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

3. What quality does Neeka want to have?
(a) Sex appeal.
(b) Integrity.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) She does not say.

4. What does the narrator say about the evidence against Tupac for sexual assault?
(a) The narrator does not mention the evidence.
(b) It is overwhelming that the accuser is lying.
(c) It is overwhelming against Tuapc.
(d) It is scanty.

5. 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.

6. What does Neeka say about Tash?
(a) He would not hurt a fly.
(b) At least he is out of drugs in prison.
(c) He has a bad temper, but would not do any more than slap a person.
(d) He is scary.

7. What effect does Tupac's imprisonment have on him?
(a) It numbs him.
(b) It enrages him.
(c) It sends him into deep depression.
(d) It makes him decide to change his life.

8. Why is Tash moved?
(a) He asked to get closer to his family.
(b) He is not moved.
(c) He is moved to a work camp.
(d) He is harrassed about being gay and Tash cuts the man.

9. What does D say about a counselor's statement in a group home?
(a) The counselor says that D is no good.
(b) The counselor says that D has more potential than any child there.
(c) The counselor says that D's kind of child is a throwaway kid.
(d) The counselor says that D is wonderful.

10. Where did Tash play piano before going to prison?
(a) Church.
(b) In his school orchestra.
(c) A local nightclub.
(d) For his school chorus.

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

12. For how long is Tupac sentenced?
(a) Up to 4 1/2 years.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 60 days.
(d) 1 year.

13. How does Tash's recklessness get him in trouble?
(a) He loses his friends through it.
(b) He falls in love with the wrong men.
(c) He gets in spats with the police.
(d) He is easily led to crime.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Sly and his friend testify?

2. Why is Neeka resentful on the trip?

3. What does Neeka think she cannot find in her family?

4. What does Neeka want to attain?

5. Where does D tell them they are going?

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