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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through September 29, 1989, Chapter 31.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does LaJoe pin on her sweatshirt and wear for the rest of the day?
(a) a medal Pharoah won in an essay contest
(b) flowers given her by Pharoah
(c) school pictures of her youngest children
(d) Pharoah's and the triplets' school ribbons

2. During the party, what does Dawn come running in to warn about?
(a) a police raid in the neighborhood
(b) gang activity going on in the next building
(c) a fire in the next building
(d) a riot in the streets

3. What do Lafeyette and Pharoah want from Terrence?
(a) him to come home
(b) the name of his gang leader
(c) a promise he will not come home
(d) the key to his foot locker

4. Why did the vacancy rate at Horner increase?
(a) old people kept dying off
(b) an increase in the number of murders
(c) a typhoid outbreak
(d) rumors of planned gentrification

5. Why does Pharoah dress up one spring morning?
(a) to go to a funeral
(b) for his spelling bee
(c) for good luck on his exams
(d) to date Clarise

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Lafeyette dress for Craig's funeral?

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

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

5. What is the subject of the poem Craig had written that haunts Lafeyette?

(see the answer key)

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