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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. How do Lafeyette and Pharoah refer to the escalating gang wars and gun battles?
(a) as the war zone
(b) as the death train
(c) as the excitement
(d) as the boom box

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

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

4. What is keeping Pharoah out of school?
(a) nothing to wear
(b) a teacher's strike that lingers for weeks
(c) fear of gang members
(d) a serious case of measels

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What has caused Pharoah to faint?

2. How does Terrance spend much of the visitation time?

3. Who is Jimmie Lee?

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

5. Who is LaJoe's childhood friend?

(see the answer key)

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