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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Summer 1989, Chapter 26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is LaJoe's childhood friend?
(a) Raquel
(b) LaBelle
(c) Rochelle
(d) Lila Mae

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

3. What causes one boy in Rickey's gang to get shot accidentally in the arm?
(a) They are playing Russian roulette.
(b) Rickey stumbles and the gun goes off accidentally.
(c) They are high on marijuana.
(d) They think the gun is not loaded.

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

5. Who makes up Rickey's gang?
(a) mostly girls in the projects
(b) boys only thirteen- or fourteen-years-old
(c) boys all older than he is
(d) drug runners

Short Answer Questions

1. Bird Leg's cousin, Rickey, is full of rage. Why?

2. When LaJoe tells Weasel, her oldest son, what the man did to her, what does Weasel do?

3. What occurs with LaShawn and her two children, boyfriend, and boyfriend's brother ?

4. After Urica's testimony, how long does it take the jury to find Lawrence Jackson guilty of murder?

5. How old was LaJoe when she first came to the Henry Horner Projects?

(see the answer key)

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