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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What prison sentence was given to Jimmie Lee?
(a) life in prison
(b) the maximum term of thirty years
(c) twenty years without parole
(d) the electric chair

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

3. What do the children call the Henry Horner Homes?
(a) the jail or the dump
(b) the hole or the box
(c) the battleground
(d) Hornets, the projects, or the 'jects

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

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

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

7. How do the people at Horner Homes call Urica?
(a) the lucky one
(b) the rat
(c) a liar
(d) the miracle child

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

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

10. Why does LaJoe hope that Dawn is successful?
(a) so her children can see the benefits of a diploma
(b) so she won't come begging for help
(c) so she can reform Terrance
(d) so Pharoah can do even better than Dawn

11. What do Lafeyette, Pharoah and their friends do at Chicago Blackhawk and Bulls games?
(a) help park cars
(b) wash cars while attendees watch the games
(c) offer to protect parked cars for game attendees
(d) collect empty drink cans to recycle

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What seriously haunts Lafeyette?

3. When another person is killed, why do Lafeyette and Pharoah refuse to go to the funeral?

4. What becomes stressful to LaJoe to the point of sleepless nights and severe headaches?

5. How does Pharoah work on his stutter?

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