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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Tyrell believe his father hates him?
(a) Because Tyrell knows his father has lost his job and has not told his mother yet.
(b) Because Tyrell walked in on his father having sex with a woman who was not his mother years earlier.
(c) Because Tyrell knows his father has a huge gambling debt and is keeping it from his mother.
(d) Because Tyrell knows his father is secretly in the Kings gang.

2. What does Tina not want to say at Tariq's funeral?
(a) Thank you.
(b) I am sorry.
(c) We loved him.
(d) Bye-bye.

3. What does Tyrell's father tell him about speaking to reporters?
(a) He tells him not to speak to them.
(b) He tells him to ask for money from them.
(c) He tells Tyrell to tell them to talk to him instead.
(d) He tells him to ask them for a job.

4. Who does Tyrell meet in the bathroom at Tariq's funeral?
(a) Terrence Johnson, Tariq's father.
(b) Noodle.
(c) Brick.
(d) His own father.

5. What did Tyrell and Tariq used to do together to make money?
(a) Make food from a food truck in the neighborhood.
(b) Collect recyclable cans from their neighbors.
(c) Sell drugs.
(d) Gamble.

6. What important question does Brick ask Sammy in Chapter 8?
(a) Whether Sammy oathed into the Kings.
(b) Whether Sammy picked up Tariq's gun.
(c) Whether Sammy shot Jack Franklin.
(d) Whether Sammy knew where his own knife was.

7. Besides, her mother, who does Tina ask for to help her when she hurts herself in Chapter 10?
(a) Kimberly.
(b) Tyrell.
(c) Tariq.
(d) Jennica.

8. Whose house does Tyrell catch a glimpse of Jack Franklin at?
(a) Rocky's.
(b) Noodle's.
(c) Brick's.
(d) Tom Arlen's.

9. What does Jennica tell Kimberly about Tariq?
(a) That she did CPR on him.
(b) That she loved him.
(c) That she wishes she had never witnessed his death.
(d) That Noodle hates Tariq.

10. What thought about Tariq is Jennica finding it hard to shake in Chapter 11?
(a) That she wanted to be his girlfriend.
(b) That she should never have been there that night in the first place.
(c) That she probably breathed in air from his last breath.
(d) That she should have told his mother he had died.

11. What did Vernesha tell Redeema her job at Tariq's funeral was?
(a) To hold all the tissues.
(b) To keep the reporters away.
(c) To give the eulogy.
(d) To take care of Tina.

12. Why does Vernesha let Terrence back in the house?
(a) She thinks he will at least be useful for getting them things and making it past the media.
(b) She wants him to invite her to go to church with him.
(c) She wants to get back together with him.
(d) She wants to ask him for child support.

13. Who does Kimberly go to see in Chapter 12 that is hard for her to do?
(a) Jennica.
(b) The Johnson family.
(c) Noodle.
(d) Brick.

14. What is Redeema's impression of Tariq's father, Terrence?
(a) She does not like him and wishes he would leave them alone.
(b) She thinks he should pay child support.
(c) She thinks he should stop dealing drugs.
(d) She thinks he is way too thin.

15. Which one of the boys slept fitfully so that he always got his own sleeping bag after their first sleepover?
(a) Sammy.
(b) Tyrell.
(c) Junior.
(d) Tariq.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Brick and Tariq have in common?

2. What does Brick think about pressuring Tyrell to join the Kings?

3. Who did not have a sleeping bag so the boys needed to share when Tyrell and the others were young?

4. What is Tyrell's dream?

5. What does Reverend Sloan start to fear in Chapter 15?

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