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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 are two main threats to the safety of Lafeyette and Pharoah at the Henry Horner Homes?
(a) trains and busses
(b) food and education
(c) gun battles and gang influences
(d) rats and snakes

2. Why does Pharoah love school?
(a) It is his chance to get out of the projects.
(b) He gets a free breakfast at school.
(c) It is a safe place where he can excel without fear.
(d) He likes to be with the girls.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What has caused Pharoah to faint?

2. Who is Jimmie Lee?

3. What happened to LaJoe's older sister?

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

5. Where does Bird Leg get food for his pets?

(see the answer key)

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