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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 the one person with whom Pharoah is comfortable?
(a) his mother LaJoe
(b) his cousin Porkchop
(c) his brother Lafeyette
(d) the triplets

2. What is Pharoah entered in at school?
(a) an accelerated learning class
(b) his class spelling bee
(c) a new PE class
(d) a mathematics contest

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

4. Who did LaJoe meet at a dance hall when she was only thirteen, pretending to be sixteen?
(a) Jimmie Lee
(b) Rickey
(c) Paul
(d) Terrance

5. What is it called when the gang members break a side window of a car at a stoplight and grab a purse or briefcase on the seat?
(a) break and take
(b) hit and run
(c) smash and grabs
(d) break and run

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is LaJoe's one hope of having a child graduate from high school and go on to college?

2. Who is the son LaJoe is closest to but who disappoints her the most?

3. What is it called when a hospital sends a patient to another hospital?

4. What does Lafeyette hear someone was doing when he got his legs run over by a train?

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

(see the answer key)

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