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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. What does Jade do in honor of the teen who was beat by the Vancouver police?
2. In Chapter 36, what type of music is Jade's mother listening to in the kitchen?
3. Who comes over in Chapter 73 to help plan the open mic night for Natasha Ramsey?
4. What is the title of Chapter 37 and what does Jade do in her latest collage project?
5. Whom does Jade decide to collage in Chapter 51?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 42, what news does Jade share with her mother?
2. What do Maxine and Jade talk about in Chapter 52?
3. What event does Maxine plan at her apartment as a mentor/mentee bonding experience?
4. What does Jade do with the pictures she took from her walk with Lee Lee and Andrea?
5. Once at the fundraiser, how does Jade feel?
6. What news does E.J share with Jade in Chapter 47?
7. In Chapter 76, what version of the story about York does Jade say she and many others believe?
8. What does Jade say to Andrew at the fundraiser?
9. In Chapter 57, how does Jade react when she realizes that Sam is not on the bus after returning from Costa Rica?
10. How does Maxine act when Jade's family start to ask her questions?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Select two or three symbols from the novel and write an essay analyzing how they relate to one of the novel's major themes.
Essay Topic 2
Jade questions Maxine's commitment to the Woman to Woman program because she is often flaky and has to take "emergency" phone calls, oftentimes to speak with her ex-boyfriend, Jon. Explain Jade's frustration with Maxine and what it reveals about Jade's characterization in the novel.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay analyzing E.J.'s relationship with both Jade and his sister, Jade's mother. How does E.J. grow and change throughout the novel? In what ways does he stay the same? How does his growth, or lack thereof, stem from his relationships with his niece and sister?
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