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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. In Chapter 71, what does Mr. Flores promise Jade?

2. What does Maxine share with Jade about St. Francis?

3. Which Black artist does Mia's gallery feature in Chapter 62?

4. What is the name of the poem Lee Lee reads at open mic?

5. What is the title of Chapter 37 and what does Jade do in her latest collage project?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 52, what does Maxine say the Woman to Woman events cannot be centered around?

2. What is the topic of Lee Lee's poem for open mic night?

3. Once at the fundraiser, how does Jade feel?

4. When Jade is at Maxine's apartment, what does she wish she had?

5. In Chapter 38, what does Jade want to purchase with her emergency money?

6. When Jade suggests that she and her mother attend the Woman to Woman class on healthy eating, how does Jade's mother respond?

7. In Chapter 42, what news does Jade share with her mother?

8. In Chapter 55, when Lee Lee, Andrea, and Jade watch a Black woman being stopped by white police officers, how do they respond?

9. How does Maxine act when Jade's family start to ask her questions?

10. When Sam and Jade talk about the trip to Costa Rica, what does Jade say to Sam that she will never understand?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identity is a common theme in the novel. Analyze how Jade grapples with her sense of identity. How do her choices, or lack thereof, illustrate her identity?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay describing Jade's relationship to the city of Portland. How does it impact her identity and emotional wellbeing?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay examining the end of the novel. How does Jade become at peace with herself? Does she find wholeness in a discovered sense of self, and if so, how?

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