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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 going on when Pharoah and the triplets come home from school three days after Lafeyette's birthday?
(a) painting the apartment
(b) a surprise party
(c) a gun battle
(d) a family reunion

2. Bird Leg's cousin, Rickey, is full of rage. Why?
(a) He cannot get into the gang.
(b) He is abused by a teacher.
(c) He is always getting beat up.
(d) He witnessed Bird Leg's death.

3. Why does LaJoe send the boys to stay with her mother a few miles west?
(a) for their safety
(b) to let her oldest daughter return home
(c) to lower her food bill
(d) to help her mother

4. 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) a train is coming
(d) the area is too dangerous at night

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Jimmie Lee?

2. Where does Bird Leg get food for his pets?

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

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

5. Who is the son LaJoe is closest to but who disappoints her the most?

(see the answer key)

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