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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Summer 1989, Chapter 27.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Pharoah love school?
(a) It is a safe place where he can excel without fear.
(b) He gets a free breakfast at school.
(c) He likes to be with the girls.
(d) It is his chance to get out of the projects.

2. During the party, what does Dawn come running in to warn about?
(a) gang activity going on in the next building
(b) a fire in the next building
(c) a police raid in the neighborhood
(d) a riot in the streets

3. Why does Pharoah dress up one spring morning?
(a) to date Clarise
(b) to go to a funeral
(c) for good luck on his exams
(d) for his spelling bee

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

5. What is the subject of the poem Craig had written that haunts Lafeyette?
(a) about life and death
(b) about good citizenship
(c) about angels
(d) about long life

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the teacher, Mr. Rogers, promise the class if either Clarise or Pharoah wins the spelling bee?

2. What does Pharoah bury outside the projects?

3. What is LaJoe able at last to make?

4. What do Lafeyette, Pharoah and their friends do at Chicago Blackhawk and Bulls games?

5. Why will Jimmie Lee not let Horner project boys join his gang and even warns them to stay away from drugs and gangs?

(see the answer key)

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