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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. Who is the only one LaJoe tells about the situation with the welfare board?
(a) LaFeyette
(b) Terrance
(c) Paul
(d) Rochelle

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

3. 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

4. Who is the teacher Lafeyette likes a great deal?
(a) Miss Walker
(b) Mrs. Everage
(c) Mr. Martin
(d) Mrs. Markham

5. What seriously haunts Lafeyette?
(a) the pressure to join a gang
(b) Bird Leg's death
(c) the boy who lost his legs
(d) school homework

Short Answer Questions

1. What evidence is there that Pharoah is comfortable in a classroom?

2. Why is eight-year-old Urica Winder in court?

3. What happened to LaJoe's older sister?

4. Who is LaJoe's one hope of having a child graduate from high school and go on to college?

5. Who is Jimmie Lee?

(see the answer key)

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