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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) to the school year
(b) to the railroad tracks
(c) up to Canada
(d) downtown Chicago

2. 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

3. What occurs with LaShawn and her two children, boyfriend, and boyfriend's brother ?
(a) They all move into the Rivers' apartment.
(b) They steal LaJoe's food stamps.
(c) They are all killed in a gang war.
(d) They help LaJoe move out of Horner.

4. What becomes stressful to LaJoe to the point of sleepless nights and severe headaches?
(a) drug abuse
(b) Pharoah's running away
(c) too many gun battles
(d) so many people in the house

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pharoah bury outside the projects?

2. Who is LaJoe's childhood friend?

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

4. What seriously haunts Lafeyette?

5. Why is Lafeyette against the friendship between Rickey and Pharoah?

(see the answer key)

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