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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Spring 1989, Chapter 25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes Gwen Anderson to vomit in the basement?
(a) the smell of rotting animal carcasses and feces
(b) the leakage from the sewer system
(c) the dead body of a baby
(d) a child tied up and kept down there

2. What is the rumor going around the projects?
(a) that the city plans to tear the buildings down for a new stadium
(b) that the tenants will be charged for all the damage to the place
(c) that they will all be evicted so the place can be rebuilt
(d) that the rents will all go up when they clean it up

3. What does the racist policeman say to Lafeyette at the stadium?
(a) Black kids all belong to gangs.
(b) There's no room for black trash here.
(c) You black kids are all pushing dope.
(d) The white people don't have money to give to niggers.

4. How have the stadium's owners, the Wirz family, changed the character of the neighborhood?
(a) by helping homeowners paint their houses
(b) by bulldozing homes for parking lots
(c) by putting up youth facilities
(d) by planting trees and flowers in the neighborhood

5. Why is Pharoah worried that even if he achieves a high school diploma, he will not be able to get out of the projects?
(a) Everyone will think he forged the diploma.
(b) Dawn has been unable to escape.
(c) There will only be poor jobs available for blacks.
(d) His brother in prison will alarm people.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the newly appointed housing manager of Horner Homes?

2. When does Pharoah realize something is wrong?

3. What event caused riots in the area around the Blackhawk stadium?

4. Who is the only one LaJoe tells about the situation with the welfare board?

5. What does Pharoah warn his friends about in the basement?

(see the answer key)

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