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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. Where does Pharoah want Lafeyette to take him?
(a) to the school year
(b) downtown Chicago
(c) to the railroad tracks
(d) up to Canada

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

3. What happened to LaJoe's older sister?
(a) She was murdered.
(b) She got bone cancer and died.
(c) She got pregnant and ran away.
(d) She became a prostitute.

4. Who is LaJoe's childhood friend?
(a) LaBelle
(b) Raquel
(c) Rochelle
(d) Lila Mae

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why will Jimmie Lee not let Horner project boys join his gang and even warns them to stay away from drugs and gangs?

2. What seriously haunts Lafeyette?

3. Why does LaJoe send the boys to stay with her mother a few miles west?

4. What is going on when Pharoah and the triplets come home from school three days after Lafeyette's birthday?

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

(see the answer key)

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