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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Summer 1988, Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Bird Leg get his pets?
(a) at a pet store
(b) back yards of Hispanic and white neighborhoods
(c) as gifts from friends
(d) along the railroad tracks

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

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

4. What do Lafeyette and Pharoah want from Terrence?
(a) the name of his gang leader
(b) a promise he will not come home
(c) the key to his foot locker
(d) him to come home

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Lafeyette fantasize about having in the future?

3. What is the nickname of the child Terrance fathered at age fourteen?

4. What did a friend do for the family?

5. What is the name of the young man who entertains outside of Horner Homes?

(see the answer key)

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