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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Urica live after her mother and sister were murdered?

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

4. Where does Bird Leg get his pets?

5. With everyone moved back into the apartment, how many does LaJoe now have to feed?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the boys sometimes make money?

2. What is the quality of Henry Suder Elementary School?

3. Describe Pharoah's innate honesty.

4. How does a policeman treat Lafeyette in the stadium parking lot?

5. Explain the obsession Calvin Robinson has that Lafeyette finds interesting.

6. How does Lafeyette's attitude change toward Rickey?

7. How is the character of Pharoah developed in the story by how he cannot lie to LaJoe?

8. Describe Pharoah's secret place.

9. Point out the contradictions in the character of Jimmie Lee.

10. What is LaJoe's expectations for Pharoah?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Twenty years after the events in 1989 involving Pharoah and his drive for an education, America elected its first African-American President who, interestingly, got his first job working in the Chicago housing projects. Write an essay about how young people like Pharoah began seeing greater opportunities during the last two decades.

Essay Topic 2

Write a critique of THERE ARE NO CHILDREN HERE. Discuss such things as the objectivity of the author, the examples he uses in the book, and what you think his purpose was in writing the book. Be sure to include your evaluation of the value in reading the book.

Essay Topic 3

Write a paper on the value of hope in life. Explain why it is important for people to believe figuratively in the gold and leprechauns at the end of the rainbow. What is the value of life without hope? Do you see it as logical that people who have no hope also have no sense of moral responsibility?

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