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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Summer 1988, Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 had made plans to go to the tracks.
(c) They are still raw from Bird Leg's funeral.
(d) They had nothing good to wear.

2. Who is the son LaJoe is closest to but who disappoints her the most?
(a) Paul
(b) Terrence
(c) Pharoah
(d) Lafeyette

3. How many inmates was the Cook County jail built to house?
(a) twelve hundred
(b) seven hundred
(c) seven thousand
(d) three thousand

4. What does Terrance claim loudly?
(a) that he will break out
(b) that he is innocent of the crime
(c) that the food is terrible
(d) that the guards beat him

5. What is Bird Leg's obsession?
(a) basketball
(b) guns
(c) dogs
(d) trains

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Dawn, Porkchop's sister, about to do?

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

3. What does Pharoah bury outside the projects?

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

5. What impediment gets worse in Pharoah after all the summer violence?

(see the answer key)

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