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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What evidence is there that Pharoah is comfortable in a classroom?
(a) He has no trouble breathing.
(b) He makes everyone laugh.
(c) He sits on the front row.
(d) He stutters less.

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

3. What event caused riots in the area around the Blackhawk stadium?
(a) the Kent State shootings
(b) the death of Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) the Chicago riots at the Democratic convention
(d) the death of Robert Kennedy

4. When Rickey and Lafeyette shoplift, what are they unaware of?
(a) an alarm system when someone takes without paying
(b) a manager pretending to be a customer
(c) a security camera in the back room
(d) a policeman standing at the front door

5. Where does Urica live after her mother and sister were murdered?
(a) in a white foster home
(b) in an orphanage
(c) in another housing project
(d) two flights up with her grandmother

6. Who wants to know if Pharoah's cousin Dede will go out with him?
(a) Rickey
(b) Jimmie Lee
(c) Calvin
(d) James Howard

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

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

9. Where does Pharoah go with Lafeyette and Rickey and some other friends?
(a) the the top of Horner Homes
(b) to visit Bird Leg's grave
(c) window shopping at discount stores on Chicago Avenue
(d) to the museum of modern art

10. What gives Pharoah a headache at the jail?
(a) the clanging of doors
(b) the guard's whistle
(c) a couple arguing
(d) a siren

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

12. Where do LaJoe, Lafeyette, Pharoah and the triplets go to visit Terrence?
(a) the university
(b) MacDonald's
(c) the Cook County Jail
(d) the hospital

13. What is it called when the gang members break a side window of a car at a stoplight and grab a purse or briefcase on the seat?
(a) break and run
(b) break and take
(c) smash and grabs
(d) hit and run

14. Why will Jimmie Lee not let Horner project boys join his gang and even warns them to stay away from drugs and gangs?
(a) because the Horner boys are too undernourished
(b) because they are too young
(c) because he only uses boys from other projects
(d) because of his love for children

15. Why do the boys hurry home from the tracks as the sun goes down?
(a) a train is coming
(b) the area is too dangerous at night
(c) they might get lost
(d) their parents will be worried

Short Answer Questions

1. How has Lafeyette's attitude toward Rickey changed?

2. How does Terrance spend much of the visitation time?

3. Who is the only one LaJoe tells about the situation with the welfare board?

4. How many inmates was the Cook County jail built to house?

5. What captivates Pharoah at Erol's Video Club?

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