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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 do the boys use to hunt for garter snakes?
(a) spades
(b) railroad spikes
(c) a cat
(d) a crowbar

2. 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 he only uses boys from other projects
(b) because of his love for children
(c) because the Horner boys are too undernourished
(d) because they are too young

3. Where does Bird Leg get his pets?
(a) at a pet store
(b) as gifts from friends
(c) back yards of Hispanic and white neighborhoods
(d) along the railroad tracks

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

5. How do Lafeyette and Pharoah refer to the escalating gang wars and gun battles?
(a) as the excitement
(b) as the war zone
(c) as the death train
(d) as the boom box

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When another person is killed, why do Lafeyette and Pharoah refuse to go to the funeral?

4. Who is Jimmie Lee?

5. What seriously haunts Lafeyette?

(see the answer key)

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