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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 impediment gets worse in Pharoah after all the summer violence?
(a) his lisp
(b) his nightmares
(c) his stutter
(d) his limp

2. Who is LaJoe's childhood friend?
(a) Lila Mae
(b) Rochelle
(c) LaBelle
(d) Raquel

3. What happened to LaJoe's older sister?
(a) She was murdered.
(b) She became a prostitute.
(c) She got pregnant and ran away.
(d) She got bone cancer and died.

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

5. How does Terrance spend much of the visitation time?
(a) making a list of things for LaJoe to bring him
(b) talking about how he is going to change
(c) lecturing Lafeyette to stay in school and out of trouble
(d) complaining about the other inmates

Short Answer Questions

1. What has caused Pharoah to faint?

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

3. When another person is killed, why do Lafeyette and Pharoah refuse to go to the funeral?

4. What is keeping Pharoah out of school?

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

(see the answer key)

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