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

2. Who is the one person with whom Pharoah is comfortable?
(a) the triplets
(b) his cousin Porkchop
(c) his brother Lafeyette
(d) his mother LaJoe

3. Where does Bird Leg get food for his pets?
(a) pet food he shoplifts
(b) left overs at home
(c) trash bins behind a Kentucky Fried Chicken
(d) dead rats in the project

4. What is going on when Pharoah and the triplets come home from school three days after Lafeyette's birthday?
(a) a gun battle
(b) a family reunion
(c) a surprise party
(d) painting the apartment

5. What seriously haunts Lafeyette?
(a) the boy who lost his legs
(b) the pressure to join a gang
(c) school homework
(d) Bird Leg's death

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Bird Leg get his pets?

3. Who is Jimmie Lee?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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