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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. What does D say about a counselor's statement in a group home?
(a) The counselor says that D is wonderful.
(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 no good.

2. What does Jayjones say about black men?
(a) They are hunted.
(b) They should hunt just as they are hunted.
(c) They should leave the United States.
(d) They need to learn to get along in white society.

3. Where does the narrator go with Miss Irene one Saturday in the summer?
(a) To interview at a college.
(b) To visit Tash in prison.
(c) To the amphiteater where she had such an emotional experience.
(d) To see Neeka's father in a hospital.

4. Why does going to a juvenile detention center seem appealing to Neeka?
(a) For some peace and quiet.
(b) She would be horrified to go to such a place.
(c) To show solidarity with Tash.
(d) Because then her mother couldn't make her babysit.

5. What does Neeka's group share?
(a) Pictures.
(b) The prison food.
(c) A large, picnic-style lunch.
(d) Anger towards Tash for getting in there.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Sly and the other man do at Randall's?

2. Who is Sly?

3. What do Sly and his friend testify?

4. What do Tash's visitors have to go through?

5. What is it about the East Side train that makes the narrator and Neeka's family uneasy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jayjones explain to the younger children about what blacks need to do to stay out of trouble?

2. What does Tash look like when he comes into the visitation area and how does he act?

3. Where is D going to live and what do the friends vow?

4. What is D's history with foster homes?

5. Who was Tash's music teacher and what did he think of Tash's playing?

6. What does Tash tell Jayjones about crime?

7. How does Neeka's family enter the prison and how do they feel about the guards?

8. What does the narrator's mother give her for her birthday?

9. How does the narrator feel about the amphitheater and what do the girls do on the stage?

10. What happens in May with the narrator and how does she feel about it?

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