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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. Why does Lafeyette not want to play basketball with the project boys?
(a) They are all older than he is.
(b) They play too rough.
(c) They cheat.
(d) They might try to recruit him into a gang.

2. How many inmates was the Cook County jail built to house?
(a) three thousand
(b) seven thousand
(c) seven hundred
(d) twelve hundred

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Pharoah love school?

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

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

4. What has caused Pharoah to faint?

5. What happened to LaJoe's older sister?

(see the answer key)

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