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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 Jazmin believe the people react the way they do to her?
(a) She looks threatening.
(b) She is talking to herself.
(c) She is black.
(d) She is alone.

2. On what do Jazmin's parents agree?
(a) The spelling of her name.
(b) Her name.
(c) The spelling of CeCe's name.
(d) What room will be hers.

3. What color does Sister Church wear?
(a) Red.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Black.
(d) White.

4. What are Jazmin's parents doing when they decide on the spelling of Jazmin's name?
(a) Timing her contractions.
(b) Eating dinner.
(c) Cooking dinner.
(d) Bathing CeCe.

5. What color was Jazmin's father's car?
(a) Blue.
(b) Black.
(c) Red.
(d) Yellow.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the girls have a poker party?

2. What walks the streets by invitation?

3. For what does Jazmin ask the people in the park?

4. What does Jazmin finally raid to get her paper?

5. Who does Jazmin credit with getting her and her sister to their mother's home?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the people think that Jazmin is looking for in the trash cans?

2. Why does T.C. pull the gun at the poker party?

3. How does CeCe convince the two men to stop fighting?

4. Why is it that Jazmin says that CeCe is so good at poker?

5. How does Jazmin know the man who gets off the bus is not her father?

6. What does Jazmin think about God?

7. When does Jazmin think that people will learn to spell her name correctly?

8. Describe the street where Jazmin is sitting.

9. Why does CeCe tell Jazmin she is beautiful?

10. Describe Jazmin's father's Cadillac.

(see the answer keys)

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