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

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

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

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

6. What is keeping Pharoah out of school?
(a) a serious case of measels
(b) a teacher's strike that lingers for weeks
(c) nothing to wear
(d) fear of gang members

7. How does Terrance spend much of the visitation time?
(a) talking about how he is going to change
(b) making a list of things for LaJoe to bring him
(c) lecturing Lafeyette to stay in school and out of trouble
(d) complaining about the other inmates

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

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

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

11. Who is Jimmie Lee?
(a) a rock and roll singer who grew up in the Henry Horner Homes
(b) head of a drug gang called the Conservative Vice Lords whose members control Henry Horner
(c) a drug addict who terrorizes the children at Henry Horner projects.
(d) a policeman who really wants to do something for the project children

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

13. 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

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

15. 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