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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the Boys Club program, what is the response to the question, "Don't you live your country?"
(a) Everyone stands and puts their hands over their hearts.
(b) There is dead silence in the stands.
(c) The applause is deafening and Pharoah gets a headache.
(d) The crowd roars "no", drowning out Pharoah's quiet "yes."

2. Why do LaJoe and Rochelle decorate the apartment?
(a) Terrance is coming home
(b) for Christmas
(c) a surprise birthday party for Pharoah
(d) just to brighten up their lives

3. What does LaJoe pin on her sweatshirt and wear for the rest of the day?
(a) a medal Pharoah won in an essay contest
(b) school pictures of her youngest children
(c) flowers given her by Pharoah
(d) Pharoah's and the triplets' school ribbons

4. Why doesn't LaJoe take Lafeyette downtown to see the holiday window decorations?
(a) He is still very ill with a cough.
(b) She wants him to guard the house.
(c) She thinks he will feel too old to do that.
(d) He misbehaved that afternoon.

5. Why are some boys beating a man outside Horner Homes?
(a) He was an undercover police officer.
(b) He was trying to sell drugs to young children.
(c) They were trying to rob him.
(d) He was molesting one of the boys' cousins in a vacant apartment.

6. Why does Lafeyette develop a terrible cough?
(a) The open windows let in a cold winter draft.
(b) Because the policeman threw him in a puddle.
(c) He catches it from Rickey.
(d) He stays out all night in the winter.

7. Why do they rarely see Rickey anymore?
(a) He has been in and out of juvenile detention.
(b) He is hiding from the police.
(c) He only hangs out with older boys now.
(d) He has been to visit his relatives in New York.

8. Why is Lafeyette arrested?
(a) allegedly selling drugs
(b) allegedly breaking into a truck near the stadium
(c) allegedly breaking and entering houses
(d) allegedly snatching a woman's purse

9. What are they all talking abut when Pharoah runs home to tell about his win?
(a) about the plumbing
(b) about Leila Mae's accident
(c) about Craig's death
(d) about the weather

10. Where is Pharoah going during the summer of 1989?
(a) to the Boys Club
(b) to summer camp
(c) to a farm in the country
(d) to the University of Illinois

11. How does LaJoe see to it that the children have a good Christmas?
(a) by playing cards to win money at night
(b) by putting gifts on layaway for months
(c) by using her benefit money
(d) by borrowing money from her mother

12. Who are Francis Higgins and Richard Marianos?
(a) gun dealers
(b) drug enforcement officers
(c) two white police officers
(d) teachers at Pharoah's school

13. What are some of the problems at the Chicago Housing Authority?
(a) bureaucratic red tape
(b) racial prejudice and police brutality
(c) lack of finitiative and no organization
(d) terrible reputation and mismanagement issues

14. A year later, what does Craig Davis' mother decide to do?
(a) to file a lawsuit against the ATF
(b) give her sons recordings to Lafeyette
(c) buy a gravestone for her son
(d) move to Alabama

15. In May of 1989, who holds a meeting with the Henry Horner tenants association?
(a) Craig Davis
(b) Vincent Lane
(c) Dawn Adams
(d) James Howard

Short Answer Questions

1. Who owns the luxury home with a marble staircase, sunken tub and Jacuzzi?

2. What destroyed Paul's relationship with LaJoe and now with his children?

3. Under what condition will the truck owner drop the charges against the five boys?

4. Why does Vince Lane not start right away to clean up the basements?

5. What is happening outside when Lafeyette doesn't move off the couch and continues to calmly watch television?

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