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

3. 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 a dangerous place
(d) as his worst place

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

5. What can Pharoah do in his secret place?
(a) play with puppies
(b) practice his spelling
(c) watch the girls jump rope
(d) clear his mind of everything there

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. How have the stadium's owners, the Wirz family, changed the character of the neighborhood?
(a) by bulldozing homes for parking lots
(b) by putting up youth facilities
(c) by planting trees and flowers in the neighborhood
(d) by helping homeowners paint their houses

15. What is Dawn, Porkchop's sister, about to do?
(a) graduate from Crane High School
(b) have another baby
(c) get married
(d) drop out of school