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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Pharoah on his last word?
(a) He gets one of his severe headaches.
(b) He suddenly needs to go to the bathroom.
(c) He spells the first four letters and then his throat closes up.
(d) He starts to stutter so bad that the judges cannot understand him.

2. 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 was stabbed forty-eight times but miraculously survived
(c) She was taken to LaJoe to care for her.
(d) She went into shock and could not speak.

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

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

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

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

7. When another person is killed, why do Lafeyette and Pharoah refuse to go to the funeral?
(a) They had nothing good to wear.
(b) They had made plans to go to the tracks.
(c) They did not like the dead boy.
(d) They are still raw from Bird Leg's funeral.

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

9. Where do the larger boys play when they visit the railway tracks?
(a) in an empty box car
(b) under a box car
(c) in the tall weeds
(d) on the tracks

10. 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

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

12. What type of person is Rickey?
(a) a kind boy everyoe likes
(b) a bookworm like Pharoah
(c) a bully and troublemaker in school
(d) a small, frightened boy

13. What becomes stressful to LaJoe to the point of sleepless nights and severe headaches?
(a) too many gun battles
(b) drug abuse
(c) Pharoah's running away
(d) so many people in the house

14. How does Pharoah work on his stutter?
(a) talking very softly
(b) tongue twisters
(c) using hand motions
(d) saying the words and letters slowly

15. With everyone moved back into the apartment, how many does LaJoe now have to feed?
(a) four adults and six children
(b) three adults and thirteen children
(c) two adults and twelve children
(d) thirteen adults and children

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old was LaJoe when she first came to the Henry Horner Projects?

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

4. Why did the vacancy rate at Horner increase?

5. What does Pharoah bury outside the projects?

(see the answer keys)

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