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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. What is the name of the young man who entertains outside of Horner Homes?
(a) James Brown
(b) Craig Davis
(c) Stevie Wonder
(d) Little Richard

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

3. What happened to LaJoe's older sister?
(a) She was murdered.
(b) She became a prostitute.
(c) She got pregnant and ran away.
(d) She got bone cancer and died.

4. Who is the one person with whom Pharoah is comfortable?
(a) his cousin Porkchop
(b) his brother Lafeyette
(c) his mother LaJoe
(d) the triplets

5. What does Lafeyette hear someone was doing when he got his legs run over by a train?
(a) sleeping
(b) walking on the railroad ties
(c) hopping a moving box car
(d) hunting for snakes

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Pharoah realize something is wrong?

2. How many inmates was the Cook County jail built to house?

3. What is going on when Pharoah and the triplets come home from school three days after Lafeyette's birthday?

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

5. Bird Leg's cousin, Rickey, is full of rage. Why?

(see the answer key)

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