The Skin I'm In- Chapters 7-13 TEST

She is smart, she loves to read and write, but she gets picked on a lot at school for her clothes and skin color.

• Sweets

• Maleeka

She is short and chubby and she doesn’t know how to read very well.

• Charlese

• Desda

He liked Maleeka when he first came to their school and used to write her notes, but he chickened out because of all the other kids making fun of her on the bus one day.

• John-John

• Caleb

She’s the newest teacher at McClenton Middle School and not many people like her (teachers included).

• Miss Saunders

• Ms. Tai

She is smart and confident about herself. She is Maleeka’s best friend that goes to another school across town for kids.

• Desda

• Sweets

What is Maleeka’s punishment for fighting Daphne?

• working in the office

• detention for 5 days

• cleaning all of the classrooms

• none of the above

Why does Maleeka think she can’t go to the “smart school” across town that Sweets goes to?

• She doesn’t think she is smart enough.

• She doesn’t think she is the “right” skin color.

• She lives too far away from the school.

• Her mom doesn’t want her to go to that school.

What does Maleeka decide to do to change her look?

• She starts wearing makeup

• She buys a long, straight wig.

• She wears new dresses and shoes

• She gets a new haircut

What happens when she comes to school with her new look?

• The other kids still make fun of her.

• The boys tell her she looks beautiful.

• She has to take her wig off.

• None of the above.

What did Maleeka’s dad always tell her?

• “You got to see yourself in the mirror I gave you.”

• “You got to see yourself with your own eyes.”

• “You got to let other people see you with their own eyes.”

• “You got to take a good look at yourself.”