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

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

3. What evidence is there that Pharoah is comfortable in a classroom?
(a) He sits on the front row.
(b) He stutters less.
(c) He makes everyone laugh.
(d) He has no trouble breathing.

4. What impediment gets worse in Pharoah after all the summer violence?
(a) his stutter
(b) his lisp
(c) his limp
(d) his nightmares

5. How does James say they will all die?
(a) by killing or plain out
(b) old age
(c) cancer
(d) in a car wreck

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is LaJoe's childhood friend?

2. What is Bird Leg's obsession?

3. What do the boys use to hunt for garter snakes?

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

5. How do Lafeyette and Pharoah refer to the escalating gang wars and gun battles?

(see the answer key)

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