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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Spring 1989, Chapter 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is happening outside when Lafeyette doesn't move off the couch and continues to calmly watch television?
(a) gunshots
(b) a hail storm
(c) a fire
(d) a police raid

2. What does LaJoe buy for them to eat downtown?
(a) hotdogs and French fries
(b) some pink cotton candy
(c) two big bags of caramel and cheese popcorn
(d) caramel apples on a stick

3. What does Pharoah worry about as he prepares for the contest?
(a) his pronunciation
(b) his memory
(c) his clothes
(d) his stutter

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

5. Where does Bird Leg get food for his pets?
(a) trash bins behind a Kentucky Fried Chicken
(b) dead rats in the project
(c) pet food he shoplifts
(d) left overs at home

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does LaJoe send the boys to stay with her mother a few miles west?

2. How do the people at Horner Homes call Urica?

3. What does the racist policeman say to Lafeyette at the stadium?

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

5. What had happened to Urica after her mother, her four-year-old sister, and her mother's boyfriend were killed?

(see the answer key)

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