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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does LaJoe send the boys to stay with her mother a few miles west?
(a) for their safety
(b) to help her mother
(c) to let her oldest daughter return home
(d) to lower her food bill

2. How does Terrance spend much of the visitation time?
(a) making a list of things for LaJoe to bring him
(b) lecturing Lafeyette to stay in school and out of trouble
(c) complaining about the other inmates
(d) talking about how he is going to change

3. Who did LaJoe meet at a dance hall when she was only thirteen, pretending to be sixteen?
(a) Rickey
(b) Terrance
(c) Paul
(d) Jimmie Lee

4. What did a friend do for the family?
(a) gave Lafeyette a job
(b) bought some groceries
(c) helped LaJoe get her welfare back
(d) bailed Terrence out of jail

5. How old was LaJoe when she first came to the Henry Horner Projects?
(a) four
(b) twenty
(c) sixteen
(d) ten

6. How does James say they will all die?
(a) by killing or plain out
(b) cancer
(c) in a car wreck
(d) old age

7. What is the name of the young man who entertains outside of Horner Homes?
(a) Stevie Wonder
(b) Craig Davis
(c) Little Richard
(d) James Brown

8. Why is Lafeyette against the friendship between Rickey and Pharoah?
(a) He worries that Rickey will lead Pharoah into trouble.
(b) He thinks someone is out to kill Rickey.
(c) He knows that Rickey is a thief.
(d) He worries that Rickey will take his place with Pharoah.

9. What does the racist policeman say to Lafeyette at the stadium?
(a) Black kids all belong to gangs.
(b) You black kids are all pushing dope.
(c) The white people don't have money to give to niggers.
(d) There's no room for black trash here.

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

11. What makes Pharoah feel uncomfortable on Chicago Avenue?
(a) Too many policemen are walking around.
(b) The traffic scares him when they cross the street.
(c) People look at them as dirty Horner boys.
(d) The boys talk about shoplifting.

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

13. What impediment gets worse in Pharoah after all the summer violence?
(a) his nightmares
(b) his limp
(c) his stutter
(d) his lisp

14. What accusation is brought against LaJoe?
(a) child abuse
(b) drug dealing
(c) welfare fraud
(d) gambling

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Lafeyette not want to play basketball with the project boys?

2. What seriously haunts Lafeyette?

3. Where do the larger boys play when they visit the railway tracks?

4. What is Bird Leg's obsession?

5. Why did the vacancy rate at Horner increase?

(see the answer keys)

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