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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. What is the nickname of the child Terrance fathered at age fourteen?
(a) Snuggles
(b) Teddy Bear
(c) Rabbit
(d) Rags

2. What happened to LaJoe's older sister?
(a) She became a prostitute.
(b) She got bone cancer and died.
(c) She was murdered.
(d) She got pregnant and ran away.

3. What is Bird Leg's obsession?
(a) basketball
(b) trains
(c) guns
(d) dogs

4. Who did LaJoe meet at a dance hall when she was only thirteen, pretending to be sixteen?
(a) Paul
(b) Jimmie Lee
(c) Terrance
(d) Rickey

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the one person with whom Pharoah is comfortable?

2. Why does Lafeyette not want to play basketball with the project boys?

3. Bird Leg's cousin, Rickey, is full of rage. Why?

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

5. What seriously haunts Lafeyette?

(see the answer key)

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