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

2. 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

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

4. How old was LaJoe when she first came to the Henry Horner Projects?
(a) twenty
(b) ten
(c) sixteen
(d) four

5. Why does Lafeyette not want to play basketball with the project boys?
(a) They are all older than he is.
(b) They play too rough.
(c) They cheat.
(d) They might try to recruit him into a gang.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Pharoah want Lafeyette to take him?

2. What evidence is there that Pharoah is comfortable in a classroom?

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

4. What seriously haunts Lafeyette?

5. What is Bird Leg's obsession?

(see the answer key)

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