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

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

3. What does Lafeyette hear someone was doing when he got his legs run over by a train?
(a) hopping a moving box car
(b) sleeping
(c) walking on the railroad ties
(d) hunting for snakes

4. What do the children call the Henry Horner Homes?
(a) the battleground
(b) the jail or the dump
(c) the hole or the box
(d) Hornets, the projects, or the 'jects

5. What are two main threats to the safety of Lafeyette and Pharoah at the Henry Horner Homes?
(a) rats and snakes
(b) trains and busses
(c) gun battles and gang influences
(d) food and education

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Bird Leg killed?

2. How old was LaJoe when she first came to the Henry Horner Projects?

3. What seriously haunts Lafeyette?

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

5. What has caused Pharoah to faint?

(see the answer key)

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