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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. What is keeping Pharoah out of school?
(a) a teacher's strike that lingers for weeks
(b) nothing to wear
(c) a serious case of measels
(d) fear of gang members

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

3. What is Bird Leg dressed in at his funeral?
(a) jeans and T-shirt
(b) his basketball uniform
(c) a new suit
(d) a white jogging suit

4. How is Bird Leg killed?
(a) stabbed in the back
(b) eating spoiled food
(c) shot in the chest
(d) run over by a train

5. What is Bird Leg's obsession?
(a) basketball
(b) trains
(c) dogs
(d) guns

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the one person with whom Pharoah is comfortable?

2. How does James say they will all die?

3. What do the boys use to hunt for garter snakes?

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

5. What seriously haunts Lafeyette?

(see the answer key)

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