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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Fall 1987 - Spring 1988, Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to LaJoe's older sister?
(a) She got bone cancer and died.
(b) She got pregnant and ran away.
(c) She became a prostitute.
(d) She was murdered.

2. What seriously haunts Lafeyette?
(a) the pressure to join a gang
(b) Bird Leg's death
(c) school homework
(d) the boy who lost his legs

3. How does Terrance spend much of the visitation time?
(a) making a list of things for LaJoe to bring him
(b) complaining about the other inmates
(c) lecturing Lafeyette to stay in school and out of trouble
(d) talking about how he is going to change

4. What does Lafeyette hear someone was doing when he got his legs run over by a train?
(a) hopping a moving box car
(b) walking on the railroad ties
(c) sleeping
(d) hunting for snakes

5. Why will Jimmie Lee not let Horner project boys join his gang and even warns them to stay away from drugs and gangs?
(a) because he only uses boys from other projects
(b) because the Horner boys are too undernourished
(c) because of his love for children
(d) because they are too young

Short Answer Questions

1. What is keeping Pharoah out of school?

2. What do Lafeyette and Pharoah want from Terrence?

3. Who is the son LaJoe is closest to but who disappoints her the most?

4. How do Lafeyette and Pharoah refer to the escalating gang wars and gun battles?

5. Who is the one person with whom Pharoah is comfortable?

(see the answer key)

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