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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Pharoah love school?
(a) He likes to be with the girls.
(b) It is his chance to get out of the projects.
(c) He gets a free breakfast at school.
(d) It is a safe place where he can excel without fear.

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

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

4. What does Lafeyette fantasize about having in the future?
(a) a job so his mother doesn't have to worry
(b) a white, wood-framed house
(c) a Cadillac
(d) a gun to shoot gang members

5. What do the boys use to hunt for garter snakes?
(a) spades
(b) railroad spikes
(c) a crowbar
(d) a cat

6. 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 have lost their interest in finding snakes
(d) they think Pharoah is too young to hang out with

7. 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

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

9. Who is LaJoe's childhood friend?
(a) LaBelle
(b) Raquel
(c) Rochelle
(d) Lila Mae

10. What happens to LaJoe at the welfare meeting?
(a) Her benefits are cut off.
(b) She is taken to the hospital.
(c) She is taken to jail.
(d) Her children are removed.

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

12. How many inmates was the Cook County jail built to house?
(a) seven hundred
(b) twelve hundred
(c) three thousand
(d) seven thousand

13. Why do the police take the boys close to their home and drop them off with a stern warning?
(a) Mario Vera, the assistant manager, admits he did not see them.
(b) Mario Vera, the assistant manager, does not press charges.
(c) Mario Vera, the assistant manager, demands to see their parents.
(d) Mario Vera, the assistant manager, pays for the videos.

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

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

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. Why will Jimmie Lee not let Horner project boys join his gang and even warns them to stay away from drugs and gangs?

3. What can Pharoah do in his secret place?

4. Where do the larger boys play when they visit the railway tracks?

5. Who is the son LaJoe is closest to but who disappoints her the most?

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