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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Fall 1987 - Spring 1988, Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What becomes stressful to LaJoe to the point of sleepless nights and severe headaches?
(a) too many gun battles
(b) Pharoah's running away
(c) drug abuse
(d) so many people in the house

2. What does Terrance claim loudly?
(a) that he will break out
(b) that he is innocent of the crime
(c) that the guards beat him
(d) that the food is terrible

3. What do Lafeyette and Pharoah want from Terrence?
(a) the key to his foot locker
(b) the name of his gang leader
(c) a promise he will not come home
(d) him to come home

4. Where do LaJoe, Lafeyette, Pharoah and the triplets go to visit Terrence?
(a) MacDonald's
(b) the Cook County Jail
(c) the university
(d) the hospital

5. Why does LaJoe send the boys to stay with her mother a few miles west?
(a) to let her oldest daughter return home
(b) to help her mother
(c) for their safety
(d) to lower her food bill

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did LaJoe meet at a dance hall when she was only thirteen, pretending to be sixteen?

2. Who is LaJoe's childhood friend?

3. Where does Pharoah want Lafeyette to take him?

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

5. How many inmates was the Cook County jail built to house?

(see the answer key)

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