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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. Why does Jayjones think he was hassled?
(a) Because he is black.
(b) Because he was a smart aleck.
(c) Because he knocked over a white boy in the ball game.
(d) Because he was going up the down escalator.

2. How many children are in Neeka's family?
(a) Eight.
(b) Ten.
(c) Seven.
(d) Five.

3. What does D say to Neeka and the narrator when they meet and they ask about her family?
(a) She is an only child.
(b) She has two brothers.
(c) She has four brothers and a sister.
(d) She has one brother and one sister.

4. Of what does Jayjones accuse Neeka?
(a) Of wanting him to be someone he is not.
(b) Of doing something that made the cop bother him.
(c) Of wanting him to become too white.
(d) Of sounding like their mother.

5. What does the narrator think Mama is thinking of when Mama looks sadly out the window?
(a) Of the family the Mama was raised in.
(b) Of getting out of that neighborhood.
(c) Of what could have been.
(d) Of the narrator's father.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does D feel about her mother?

2. In what movie does Tupac play a starring role?

3. Why are the narrator and Neeka jealous of D right off?

4. What school does Jayjones attend?

5. In Chapter 4, what regret does the narrator's mother express?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the narrator and Neeka envy about D and what does Neeka ask D to bring the next time she comes?

2. What do the narrator and Neeka hear on the news about Tupac in Chapter 7 and how do the girls react? What does the narrator's mother say about it?

3. Who is Neeka's other brother and why do Neeka and the narrator dislike the homophobic rap songs? Where is this brother?

4. What do the narrator and Neeka dream about when they listen to Tupac's music and how old are they?

5. What does Tupac's death make the narrator think about and what is the rest of the book about?

6. Why does Jayjones arrive at the house breathless in Chapter 5?

7. What does Neeka interrogate D about when they meet and why did D come to their street?

8. Who is Jayjones, why is he known at school and what does he want to do with his life?

9. For what does the narrator have a reputation?

10. What does the narrator say about Tupac Shakur and getting shot in the prologue?

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