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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How have the stadium's owners, the Wirz family, changed the character of the neighborhood?
(a) by bulldozing homes for parking lots
(b) by helping homeowners paint their houses
(c) by putting up youth facilities
(d) by planting trees and flowers in the neighborhood

2. Who is the one person with whom Pharoah is comfortable?
(a) his mother LaJoe
(b) his cousin Porkchop
(c) his brother Lafeyette
(d) the triplets

3. Who is Jimmie Lee?
(a) a rock and roll singer who grew up in the Henry Horner Homes
(b) head of a drug gang called the Conservative Vice Lords whose members control Henry Horner
(c) a policeman who really wants to do something for the project children
(d) a drug addict who terrorizes the children at Henry Horner projects.

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

5. Where does Bird Leg get his pets?
(a) as gifts from friends
(b) back yards of Hispanic and white neighborhoods
(c) at a pet store
(d) along the railroad tracks

6. What had happened to Urica after her mother, her four-year-old sister, and her mother's boyfriend were killed?
(a) She had hid under a box and the killers did not see her.
(b) She went into shock and could not speak.
(c) She was taken to LaJoe to care for her.
(d) She was stabbed forty-eight times but miraculously survived

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

8. What does the young man do with Lafeyette?
(a) collects snakes
(b) shows him how to deejay
(c) plays basketball with him
(d) teaches him the guitar

9. What is Bird Leg dressed in at his funeral?
(a) a white jogging suit
(b) a new suit
(c) jeans and T-shirt
(d) his basketball uniform

10. What is the last word Pharoah is given to spell?
(a) indoctrinate
(b) endurance
(c) endearing
(d) endeavor

11. How has Lafeyette's attitude toward Rickey changed?
(a) He never thinks of him any more.
(b) He is more suspicious of him than ever.
(c) He comes to accept him as Pharoah's friend.
(d) He decides to threaten Rickey.

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

13. Who is LaJoe's one hope of having a child graduate from high school and go on to college?
(a) Lafeyette
(b) Pharoah
(c) Terrance
(d) Rochelle

14. What is Pharoah entered in at school?
(a) a new PE class
(b) a mathematics contest
(c) his class spelling bee
(d) an accelerated learning class

15. Why does Lafeyette not want to play basketball with the project boys?
(a) They cheat.
(b) They play too rough.
(c) They are all older than he is.
(d) They might try to recruit him into a gang.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did LaJoe meet at a dance hall when she was only thirteen, pretending to be sixteen?

2. What prison sentence was given to Jimmie Lee?

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

4. Where do LaJoe, Lafeyette, Pharoah and the triplets go to visit Terrence?

5. When does Pharoah realize something is wrong?

(see the answer keys)

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