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

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

3. Why do the boys hurry home from the tracks as the sun goes down?
(a) they might get lost
(b) a train is coming
(c) the area is too dangerous at night
(d) their parents will be worried

4. Who is Jimmie Lee?
(a) a drug addict who terrorizes the children at Henry Horner projects.
(b) head of a drug gang called the Conservative Vice Lords whose members control Henry Horner
(c) a policeman who really wants to do something for the project children
(d) a rock and roll singer who grew up in the Henry Horner Homes

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of person is Rickey?

2. What is Bird Leg's obsession?

3. What do the children call the Henry Horner Homes?

4. What impediment gets worse in Pharoah after all the summer violence?

5. What does Lafeyette hear someone was doing when he got his legs run over by a train?

(see the answer key)

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