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

2. What impediment gets worse in Pharoah after all the summer violence?
(a) his lisp
(b) his nightmares
(c) his limp
(d) his stutter

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

4. Who wants to know if Pharoah's cousin Dede will go out with him?
(a) Rickey
(b) Calvin
(c) Jimmie Lee
(d) James Howard

5. Why is Lafeyette against the friendship between Rickey and Pharoah?
(a) He worries that Rickey will lead Pharoah into trouble.
(b) He thinks someone is out to kill Rickey.
(c) He worries that Rickey will take his place with Pharoah.
(d) He knows that Rickey is a thief.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Bird Leg dressed in at his funeral?

3. Why will Jimmie Lee not let Horner project boys join his gang and even warns them to stay away from drugs and gangs?

4. What is Pharoah entered in at school?

5. What did a friend do for the family?

(see the answer key)

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