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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. What does Lafeyette hear someone was doing when he got his legs run over by a train?
(a) walking on the railroad ties
(b) sleeping
(c) hunting for snakes
(d) hopping a moving box car

2. What happens to Pharoah on his last word?
(a) He spells the first four letters and then his throat closes up.
(b) He suddenly needs to go to the bathroom.
(c) He gets one of his severe headaches.
(d) He starts to stutter so bad that the judges cannot understand him.

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

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

5. How does Pharoah work on his stutter?
(a) tongue twisters
(b) using hand motions
(c) saying the words and letters slowly
(d) talking very softly

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What has caused Pharoah to faint?

3. Where does Pharoah go with Lafeyette and Rickey and some other friends?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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