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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Pharoah bury outside the projects?
(a) two goldfish
(b) his homework
(c) a crowbar
(d) a dead cat

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

4. What are two main threats to the safety of Lafeyette and Pharoah at the Henry Horner Homes?
(a) trains and busses
(b) rats and snakes
(c) food and education
(d) gun battles and gang influences

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

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

7. What is going on when Pharoah and the triplets come home from school three days after Lafeyette's birthday?
(a) a family reunion
(b) painting the apartment
(c) a gun battle
(d) a surprise party

8. Why do Lafeyette and Rickey refuse to take Pharoah back to the railroad tracks?
(a) they think Pharoah is too young to hang out with
(b) they have lost their interest in finding snakes
(c) more rumors spread about the dangers in the area
(d) they think they are too old to play there anymore

9. What happened to LaJoe's older sister?
(a) She got pregnant and ran away.
(b) She became a prostitute.
(c) She got bone cancer and died.
(d) She was murdered.

10. Who is the son LaJoe is closest to but who disappoints her the most?
(a) Paul
(b) Pharoah
(c) Terrence
(d) Lafeyette

11. Why did the vacancy rate at Horner increase?
(a) an increase in the number of murders
(b) old people kept dying off
(c) a typhoid outbreak
(d) rumors of planned gentrification

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

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

14. How does Pharoah think of the lush, grassy lawn around the condominium complex called Damen Courts?
(a) as his worst place
(b) as a dangerous place
(c) as his secret place
(d) as a forbidden place

15. When does Pharoah realize something is wrong?
(a) when the electricity is shut off
(b) when they start eating a lot of peanut butter sandwiches
(c) when Lafeyette starts talking about joining a gang
(d) when LaJoe doesn't come home with groceries as usual

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Pharoah work on his stutter?

2. What had happened to Urica after her mother, her four-year-old sister, and her mother's boyfriend were killed?

3. What does Terrance claim loudly?

4. Why does Pharoah love school?

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

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