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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is embossed on the leather wallet Starr gives Maverick for Father's Day one year?
(a) Maverick's initials.
(b) Starr's initials.
(c) Lisa's initials.
(d) Cash money.

2. What type of vehicle crawls down the street announcing the terms of the curfew in Garden Heights?
(a) A bus.
(b) A tank.
(c) A motorcycle.
(d) A Hummer.

3. What location does Maverick say is the place where he and Lisa met?
(a) At a school dance.
(b) At the roller skating rink.
(c) At a high school basketball game.
(d) At an NBA basketball game.

4. How many bedrooms does Starr reveal to Chris that her family's old apartment in the projects had contained?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

5. Until she says it in her television interview, who is the only person Starr has told about Officer Cruise keeping a gun pointed at her until back-up had arrived?
(a) DeVante.
(b) Lisa.
(c) Uncle Carlos.
(d) Seven.

6. Who is NOT listed among the list of poster subjects when Starr describes the posters hanging on the walls of April Ofrah's organization?
(a) Malcolm X.
(b) The Black Panthers.
(c) Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
(d) Huey Newton.

7. What does Starr say Chris's lips taste like when she kisses him after they make up at prom?
(a) Fruit punch.
(b) Cotton candy.
(c) Rum and coke.
(d) Grape jelly.

8. What is the theme of Chris and Starr's prom?
(a) Saturday Night Fever.
(b) Grease Lightning.
(c) Midnight in Paris.
(d) Total Eclipse of the Heart.

9. What does April Ofrah say she will begin her work for Starr by doing?
(a) Getting her a television interview.
(b) Filing a lawsuit against the county on her behalf.
(c) Getting a restraining order for her against Officer Cruise.
(d) Renting her an office.

10. What quality does Starr say that she qualifies as at Williamson Prep because she is black?
(a) An expert on other cultures.
(b) Popular.
(c) An outsider.
(d) Cool.

11. During what class period do the protests start at Williamson Prep?
(a) 4th.
(b) 1st.
(c) 6th.
(d) 3rd.

12. When Maverick thanks Black Jesus for helping Seven do something he himself did not do, what is it?
(a) Escape the projects.
(b) Avoid a criminal record.
(c) Get a high school diploma.
(d) Have safe sex throughout high school.

13. What name does Kenya call Starr for keeping her eyewitness account of Khalil's murder a secret from everyone but the detectives who interview her at the station?
(a) Sneak.
(b) Lily-livered snake.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Coward.

14. What does Starr call the new blog she starts after Khalil's death?
(a) Fuck the Police.
(b) #SoWrong.
(c) Act Up.
(d) The Khalil I Know.

15. Who calls dibs on the biggest of the bedrooms available to the three kids who will be living in the new house?
(a) Seven.
(b) DeVante.
(c) Starr.
(d) Sekani.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Starr say she has to wear every time LeBron James plays if she wants his team to win?

2. Aside from her mother and father, who does Maverick tell Starr is the only one that she has to fear?

3. What kind of snitching does Starr say she is doing by mentioning King's crimes without mentioning his name?

4. What kind of gun does Maverick use to shoot the tire of the gunmen who had shot up Maverick's family's house?

5. Who tells Iesha to kick Seven out of the house and causes him to have to move in with Maverick?

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