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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 are two main threats to the safety of Lafeyette and Pharoah at the Henry Horner Homes?
(a) gun battles and gang influences
(b) trains and busses
(c) rats and snakes
(d) food and education

2. How do Lafeyette and Pharoah refer to the escalating gang wars and gun battles?
(a) as the boom box
(b) as the death train
(c) as the excitement
(d) as the war zone

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. What does Pharoah bury outside the projects?
(a) a crowbar
(b) two goldfish
(c) his homework
(d) a dead cat

5. What has caused Pharoah to faint?
(a) snakes at the tracks
(b) deeing Bird Leg get shot
(c) the sounds of gunfire
(d) getting too hot

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Bird Leg's obsession?

2. What seriously haunts Lafeyette?

3. What type of person is Rickey?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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