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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Fall 1988-Winter 1989, Chapter 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is LaJoe's one hope of having a child graduate from high school and go on to college?
(a) Rochelle
(b) Lafeyette
(c) Terrance
(d) Pharoah

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

3. Who is the son LaJoe is closest to but who disappoints her the most?
(a) Pharoah
(b) Terrence
(c) Paul
(d) Lafeyette

4. What seriously haunts Lafeyette?
(a) school homework
(b) the boy who lost his legs
(c) Bird Leg's death
(d) the pressure to join a gang

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Clarise?

2. What is the nickname of the child Terrance fathered at age fourteen?

3. When Rickey and Lafeyette shoplift, what are they unaware of?

4. How does LaJoe see to it that the children have a good Christmas?

5. Who is the one person with whom Pharoah is comfortable?

(see the answer key)

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