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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 treats does LaJoe buy for the children?
(a) small plastic toy filled with candy
(b) candy and chewing gum
(c) fresh fruit and popsicles
(d) comic books and candy

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

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

4. What can Pharoah do in his secret place?
(a) practice his spelling
(b) play with puppies
(c) clear his mind of everything there
(d) watch the girls jump rope

5. What prison sentence was given to Jimmie Lee?
(a) twenty years without parole
(b) the maximum term of thirty years
(c) life in prison
(d) the electric chair

Short Answer Questions

1. What are two main threats to the safety of Lafeyette and Pharoah at the Henry Horner Homes?

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

3. Why is Pharoah's stutter much less noticeable?

4. Why does LaJoe send the boys to stay with her mother a few miles west?

5. Why is Lafeyette against the friendship between Rickey and Pharoah?

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