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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does LaJoe want to try and move away from Horner?
(a) so the police cannot find Lafeyette
(b) so that the children can go to a better school
(c) so that she can find a job
(d) so Terrence won't have to return to Horner

2. Why does Lafeyette want to fight his father?
(a) He wants his father to teach him how to win a fight.
(b) He thinks his father sold his puppy for drugs.
(c) He catches his father stealing LaJoe's savings.
(d) He sees his father strike LaJoe.

3. What is Pharoah's latest interest?
(a) medicine
(b) girls
(c) politics
(d) writing

4. What destroyed Paul's relationship with LaJoe and now with his children?
(a) women
(b) meanness
(c) abuse
(d) drugs

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Lafeyette develop a terrible cough?

2. What incriminating thing had Derrick said to the truck owner at the stadium?

3. What does Pharoah admit is his greatest fear?

4. When LaJoe tells Weasel, her oldest son, what the man did to her, what does Weasel do?

5. What does Pharoah think is at the end of the rainbow?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some of the improvements Vincent Lane is able to make in the projects?

2. What happens at the hearing in spite of Anne Rhodes' telling the judge she does not think Lafeyette is guilty?

3. How does Pharoah react to his visit to the courtroom?

4. Describe Lafeyette's brush with the law that gets him arrested.

5. Why does Terrence agree to participate in an armed robbery?

6. Why does LaJoe's mother move out and how do the boys feel about her moving?

7. Describe what Pharoah sees as the boys are eating their food outside the Main Street hot dog stand.

8. What does Rickey do that displeases LaJoe?

9. Who is Vince Lane and what does he hope to accomplish?

10. What are the projects like in the winter?

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