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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Fall 1987 - Spring 1988, Chapter 7.

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) It is his chance to get out of the projects.
(d) He likes to be with the girls.

2. Why do the boys hurry home from the tracks as the sun goes down?
(a) the area is too dangerous at night
(b) they might get lost
(c) a train is coming
(d) their parents will be worried

3. How does James say they will all die?
(a) by killing or plain out
(b) cancer
(c) in a car wreck
(d) old age

4. Where does Bird Leg get food for his pets?
(a) left overs at home
(b) trash bins behind a Kentucky Fried Chicken
(c) pet food he shoplifts
(d) dead rats in the project

5. Where do the larger boys play when they visit the railway tracks?
(a) in an empty box car
(b) in the tall weeds
(c) on the tracks
(d) under a box car

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Pharoah want Lafeyette to take him?

2. What impediment gets worse in Pharoah after all the summer violence?

3. What seriously haunts Lafeyette?

4. How old was LaJoe when she first came to the Henry Horner Projects?

5. What does Lafeyette hear someone was doing when he got his legs run over by a train?

(see the answer key)

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