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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 does Pharoah bury outside the projects?
(a) his homework
(b) two goldfish
(c) a crowbar
(d) a dead cat

2. What does Terrance claim loudly?
(a) that he is innocent of the crime
(b) that the food is terrible
(c) that the guards beat him
(d) that he will break out

3. What is keeping Pharoah out of school?
(a) nothing to wear
(b) a teacher's strike that lingers for weeks
(c) fear of gang members
(d) a serious case of measels

4. How many inmates was the Cook County jail built to house?
(a) seven hundred
(b) twelve hundred
(c) three thousand
(d) seven thousand

5. Who is the son LaJoe is closest to but who disappoints her the most?
(a) Terrence
(b) Pharoah
(c) Paul
(d) Lafeyette

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the nickname of the child Terrance fathered at age fourteen?

2. How old was LaJoe when she first came to the Henry Horner Projects?

3. What impediment gets worse in Pharoah after all the summer violence?

4. What evidence is there that Pharoah is comfortable in a classroom?

5. Where do LaJoe, Lafeyette, Pharoah and the triplets go to visit Terrence?

(see the answer key)

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