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

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

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

4. How old was LaJoe when she first came to the Henry Horner Projects?
(a) four
(b) ten
(c) twenty
(d) sixteen

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do Lafeyette and Pharoah refer to the escalating gang wars and gun battles?

3. What gives Pharoah a headache at the jail?

4. What does Pharoah bury outside the projects?

5. Why does Pharoah love school?

(see the answer key)

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