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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do all of Dasani's siblings meet in New York City for a supervised visit with their parents?

2. What school does Dasani enroll in?

3. When the Coates family returns home from the Department of Homeless Services’s office, what do they find?

4. What is Supreme’s favorite board game?

5. What is one of the most enjoyable tasks for Dasani at the house?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Chapter 23 opens on who's nightmare of their childhood?

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

4. What technique does Dasani learn from Roxanne that she employs to avoid a fight?

5. How do readers see multigenerational poverty in this book?

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

7. Dasani’s path to becoming the first member of her family to graduate from high school symbolizes what?

8. What does it mean to have a home for Dasani? Is it just a roof overhead or something more? Explain.

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

10. How do the homeless afford cell phones and Nintendos?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Elliott writes that Dasani’s parents, depending on your perspective, are “either ‘working the system’ or ‘making ends meet.’” Did you share one of these opinions before you started reading? Did your opinion change after reading the book?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the importance of positive role models and their impact on Dasani’s life—especially African-American women like Faith Hester, the Brooklyn school teacher, or Julie Williams, the therapist at Milton Hershey School.

Essay Topic 3

How does America’s history of racism and Black disenfranchisement intersect with the story of Dasani’s family? What government policies and social inequities have impacted this family over time?

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