Punching the Air Q1 Review

Question 1

What is the name of the boy Amal was accused of beating almost to death?

Accepted Answer

Jeremy

Question 2

True or false: Amal feels like his art teacher, Ms. Rinaldi, truly understood him and tried to help him in the trial.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 3

Which of the following is NOT the name of one of the five boys convicted unjustly in the Central Park jogger case?

Accepted Answer

Stephon Clark

Question 4

What&#x27;s the name of the girl from Amal&#x27;s school who writes to him in prison?

Accepted Answer

Zenobia

Question 5

What does the name "Umi" mean?

Accepted Answer

Mother

Question 6

What kind of high school did Amal go to?

Accepted Answer

An arts school

Question 7

What finally gets Kadon, the other prisoner, to connect with Amal?

Accepted Answer

They both like writing lyrics

Question 8

Amal does not tell the truth to Cheryl-Ann Buford about what happened to him in the prison bathroom.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 9

Where is Amal when the story begins?

Accepted Answer

In the courtroom waiting for the verdict

Question 10

What incident in jail gets Amal put into solitary confinement?

Accepted Answer

He shoves a whole table at the guard with the horrible tattoo

Question 11

Amal uses several poems in the book to compare going to jail to:

Accepted Answer

Living in Africa, then being chained and enslaved and coming to America

Question 12

What was Amal&#x27;s punishment for getting into that fight with his friend Shawn in 5th grade in the poem, "The Watch"?

Accepted Answer

Suspended for three days

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