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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 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) for their safety
(d) to lower her food bill

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

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

4. Who is the son LaJoe is closest to but who disappoints her the most?
(a) Terrence
(b) Lafeyette
(c) Paul
(d) Pharoah

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Lafeyette and Pharoah want from Terrence?

2. What happened to LaJoe's older sister?

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

4. Where does Pharoah want Lafeyette to take him?

5. What seriously haunts Lafeyette?

(see the answer key)

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