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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 has changed about Dasani when she returns home for Spring Break?
(a) She is silent.
(b) She is excited about everything.
(c) She corrects everyone's grammar and refuses to do chores.
(d) She is always tired.

2. As the Coates family approaches the entrance of the homeless shelter, what does Chanel see?
(a) Three kittens.
(b) Puppies.
(c) A box of mice.
(d) Two abandoned baby turtles

3. What reason does Dasani get suspended?
(a) She talks during class.
(b) She fights.
(c) She buys drugs.
(d) She kisses a boy.

4. At Hershey, what does the "behavioral agreement" state that Dasani signs?
(a) That she will no longer speak out of line.
(b) That she will stand up for what she believes in.
(c) That she will get picked up by her housemate.
(d) That she will remove herself from situations that may escalate into violence.

5. What do the project kids call Dasani’s pink sweatsuit?
(a) Pinky.
(b) Ugly.
(c) Torn.
(d) Pajamas.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Chanel become hooked on painkillers?

2. What did Supreme's baby sister die of?

3. What happens after Dasani jabs a steak knife at her housemate?

4. What administration has the family under surveillance?

5. Dasani’s family boarded the ferry to go to the homeless shelter in what city?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the function of Partnership with Children? How effective is it?

2. What is the Structural Racism in the novel, as shown in Chapter 40?

3. What is gentrification?

4. What does the imagery of water represent in the book in Chapter 36?

5. What are Chanel and Supreme’s reasons for not looking for an apartment in Chapter 22?

6. What is symbolic about Dasani's graduation?

7. In Chapter 38, what is Dasani staring at in the mock courtroom?

8. Later in Chapter 37, where do all of Dasani's siblings meet?

9. What is the “Knockout Game” and how does it enter into Dasani’s inspirational storyline?

10. What is the fate of Khaliq in Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City?

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