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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. How is Bird Leg killed?
(a) eating spoiled food
(b) run over by a train
(c) shot in the chest
(d) stabbed in the back

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

3. When another person is killed, why do Lafeyette and Pharoah refuse to go to the funeral?
(a) They did not like the dead boy.
(b) They are still raw from Bird Leg's funeral.
(c) They had nothing good to wear.
(d) They had made plans to go to the tracks.

4. How old was LaJoe when she first came to the Henry Horner Projects?
(a) ten
(b) sixteen
(c) twenty
(d) four

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is LaJoe's childhood friend?

3. What evidence is there that Pharoah is comfortable in a classroom?

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

5. What does Pharoah bury outside the projects?

(see the answer key)

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