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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Summer 1988, Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Pharoah want Lafeyette to take him?
(a) up to Canada
(b) to the school year
(c) to the railroad tracks
(d) downtown Chicago

2. What is the nickname of the child Terrance fathered at age fourteen?
(a) Rabbit
(b) Snuggles
(c) Teddy Bear
(d) Rags

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

4. What do the children call the Henry Horner Homes?
(a) the jail or the dump
(b) the battleground
(c) Hornets, the projects, or the 'jects
(d) the hole or the box

5. Where does Urica live after her mother and sister were murdered?
(a) in another housing project
(b) in a white foster home
(c) in an orphanage
(d) two flights up with her grandmother

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who did LaJoe meet at a dance hall when she was only thirteen, pretending to be sixteen?

3. Why is Pharoah's stutter much less noticeable?

4. What seriously haunts Lafeyette?

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

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