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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why will Pharaoh not wear his nylon jacket with the Blackhawk logo?
(a) The logo is almost falling off.
(b) It is old and faded.
(c) It has a big hole in it.
(d) Several boys have been murdered for their jackets.

6. Where does Pharoah want Lafeyette to take him?
(a) up to Canada
(b) downtown Chicago
(c) to the railroad tracks
(d) to the school year

7. What seriously haunts Lafeyette?
(a) the boy who lost his legs
(b) the pressure to join a gang
(c) Bird Leg's death
(d) school homework

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

9. How is Bird Leg killed?
(a) eating spoiled food
(b) shot in the chest
(c) run over by a train
(d) stabbed in the back

10. What has caused Pharoah to faint?
(a) snakes at the tracks
(b) deeing Bird Leg get shot
(c) the sounds of gunfire
(d) getting too hot

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

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

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

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

15. What captivates Pharoah at Erol's Video Club?
(a) the cartoons
(b) the Wrestle Mania movies
(c) the video machines
(d) the space movies

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is eight-year-old Urica Winder in court?

2. Why can LaJoe not defend herself well against the accusations?

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

4. What solidifies the friendship between Rickey and Pharoah?

5. Why is Pharoah's stutter much less noticeable?

(see the answer keys)

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