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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. Who is LaJoe's childhood friend?
(a) Lila Mae
(b) LaBelle
(c) Rochelle
(d) Raquel

2. What does Lafeyette hear someone was doing when he got his legs run over by a train?
(a) sleeping
(b) hunting for snakes
(c) hopping a moving box car
(d) walking on the railroad ties

3. What is going on when Pharoah and the triplets come home from school three days after Lafeyette's birthday?
(a) a family reunion
(b) a gun battle
(c) a surprise party
(d) painting the apartment

4. Who is Jimmie Lee?
(a) a policeman who really wants to do something for the project children
(b) a rock and roll singer who grew up in the Henry Horner Homes
(c) a drug addict who terrorizes the children at Henry Horner projects.
(d) head of a drug gang called the Conservative Vice Lords whose members control Henry Horner

5. What do the children call the Henry Horner Homes?
(a) the hole or the box
(b) Hornets, the projects, or the 'jects
(c) the battleground
(d) the jail or the dump

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Pharoah love school?

2. Why do the boys hurry home from the tracks as the sun goes down?

3. Where do the larger boys play when they visit the railway tracks?

4. Where does Bird Leg get his pets?

5. Where does Pharoah want Lafeyette to take him?

(see the answer key)

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