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

2. What seriously haunts Lafeyette?
(a) Bird Leg's death
(b) the boy who lost his legs
(c) school homework
(d) the pressure to join a gang

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

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

5. Where does Pharoah go with Lafeyette and Rickey and some other friends?
(a) window shopping at discount stores on Chicago Avenue
(b) to the museum of modern art
(c) to visit Bird Leg's grave
(d) the the top of Horner Homes

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do LaJoe, Lafeyette, Pharoah and the triplets go to visit Terrence?

2. Why does Vince Lane not start right away to clean up the basements?

3. How many inmates was the Cook County jail built to house?

4. When another person is killed, why do Lafeyette and Pharoah refuse to go to the funeral?

5. Why is eight-year-old Urica Winder in court?

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