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

2. Where does Pharoah want Lafeyette to take him?
(a) to the school year
(b) downtown Chicago
(c) to the railroad tracks
(d) up to Canada

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Bird Leg killed?

2. What type of person is Rickey?

3. What accusation is brought against LaJoe?

4. What gives Pharoah a headache at the jail?

5. Where do the larger boys play when they visit the railway tracks?

(see the answer key)

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