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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Fall 1987 - Spring 1988, Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wants to know if Pharoah's cousin Dede will go out with him?
(a) James Howard
(b) Rickey
(c) Jimmie Lee
(d) Calvin

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

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

4. 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 let her oldest daughter return home
(d) to help her mother

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Bird Leg's obsession?

2. Who is LaJoe's childhood friend?

3. What is Bird Leg dressed in at his funeral?

4. Where do the larger boys play when they visit the railway tracks?

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

(see the answer key)

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