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

2. When another person is killed, why do Lafeyette and Pharoah refuse to go to the funeral?
(a) They had nothing good to wear.
(b) They are still raw from Bird Leg's funeral.
(c) They did not like the dead boy.
(d) They had made plans to go to the tracks.

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

4. Why does LaJoe send the boys to stay with her mother a few miles west?
(a) to help her mother
(b) to let her oldest daughter return home
(c) for their safety
(d) to lower her food bill

5. Why will Jimmie Lee not let Horner project boys join his gang and even warns them to stay away from drugs and gangs?
(a) because of his love for children
(b) because he only uses boys from other projects
(c) because they are too young
(d) because the Horner boys are too undernourished

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Pharoah love school?

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

3. How is Bird Leg killed?

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

5. What has caused Pharoah to faint?

(see the answer key)

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