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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. What do the children call the Henry Horner Homes?
(a) the jail or the dump
(b) Hornets, the projects, or the 'jects
(c) the battleground
(d) the hole or the box

2. What solidifies the friendship between Rickey and Pharoah?
(a) Rickey punches a bully who had been picking on Pharoah.
(b) Rickey starts dating Pharoah's cousin.
(c) Rickey saves Pharoah from getting hit by a bus.
(d) Rickey gives Pharoah his lunch money.

3. What bad dream does Pharoah have after the sentencing of his older brother?
(a) Terrence is carried away by a vulture.
(b) Terrence falls from a cliff.
(c) Terrence is swimming in the middle of the ocean;
(d) Terrence confronts a monster that is chasing him.

4. Why is eight-year-old Urica Winder in court?
(a) as a front for a gang
(b) as a child prostitute
(c) as a shoplifter
(d) as a witness to murder

5. How is Craig killed?
(a) an automobile crash
(b) a gangland execution
(c) a gunshot to the head
(d) run over by a train

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the son LaJoe is closest to but who disappoints her the most?

2. What type of person is Rickey?

3. What is Lafeyette beginning to look like at the age of thriteen?

4. What causes one boy in Rickey's gang to get shot accidentally in the arm?

5. What is different about Terrence's appearance at the trial?

(see the answer key)

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