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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Fall 1987 - Spring 1988, Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do the larger boys play when they visit the railway tracks?
(a) on the tracks
(b) under a box car
(c) in the tall weeds
(d) in an empty box car

2. When another person is killed, why do Lafeyette and Pharoah refuse to go to the funeral?
(a) They did not like the dead boy.
(b) They are still raw from Bird Leg's funeral.
(c) They had made plans to go to the tracks.
(d) They had nothing good to wear.

3. How does James say they will all die?
(a) old age
(b) by killing or plain out
(c) cancer
(d) in a car wreck

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

5. What has caused Pharoah to faint?
(a) getting too hot
(b) snakes at the tracks
(c) deeing Bird Leg get shot
(d) the sounds of gunfire

Short Answer Questions

1. What is keeping Pharoah out of school?

2. What do the boys use to hunt for garter snakes?

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

4. What is Bird Leg dressed in at his funeral?

5. What do the children call the Henry Horner Homes?

(see the answer key)

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