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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who owns the luxury home with a marble staircase, sunken tub and Jacuzzi?
(a) the Chicago Mafia
(b) the Playboy Club
(c) Mayor Daly
(d) a family of drug runners

2. What does Pharoah warn his friends about in the basement?
(a) poisonous snakes
(b) vampire bats
(c) human-headed cats
(d) evil spirits

3. What is Lafeyette beginning to look like at the age of thriteen?
(a) like a ghost
(b) like an old man
(c) like his father
(d) like a wild animal

4. What does LaJoe buy for them to eat downtown?
(a) caramel apples on a stick
(b) two big bags of caramel and cheese popcorn
(c) hotdogs and French fries
(d) some pink cotton candy

5. What was the result of Lafeyette's fall down some stairs?
(a) a torn ligament
(b) a broken arm
(c) a fractured ankle
(d) a concussion

6. Who is Clarise?
(a) LaJoe's cousin
(b) the smartest girl in Pharoah's class
(c) Pharoah's new girlfriend
(d) Rickey's bad sister

7. Where is Pharoah going during the summer of 1989?
(a) to the University of Illinois
(b) to the Boys Club
(c) to summer camp
(d) to a farm in the country

8. What does Weasel give Lafeyette and Pharoah?
(a) new shoes
(b) ten dollars each
(c) two pit bull puppies
(d) two Persian cats

9. How does LaJoe see to it that the children have a good Christmas?
(a) by playing cards to win money at night
(b) by borrowing money from her mother
(c) by putting gifts on layaway for months
(d) by using her benefit money

10. Why are some boys beating a man outside Horner Homes?
(a) He was an undercover police officer.
(b) He was trying to sell drugs to young children.
(c) They were trying to rob him.
(d) He was molesting one of the boys' cousins in a vacant apartment.

11. When are the projects stifling hot?
(a) at midnight
(b) in the summer
(c) at night
(d) in the winter

12. What is it called when a hospital sends a patient to another hospital?
(a) reference managing
(b) outpatient care
(c) patient dumping
(d) ambulance running

13. After placing second behind Clarise, what really makes Pharoah happy?
(a) He did not stutter during the contest.
(b) Lafeyette buys him an ice cream cone.
(c) LaJoe was there to see him.
(d) He has a blue ribbon to take home.

14. What begins to happen to try and reduce the violence in the projects?
(a) vigilante committees are formed
(b) building sweeps to try to get rid of the gangs
(c) enlarged police patrols in the area
(d) rewards offered for turning in gang members

15. What position had LaJoe's mother held when LaJoe was a child?
(a) County Clerk
(b) delegate to the Democratic National Convention
(c) Voting registrar
(d) the precinct captain for the Democratic Party

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Lafeyette cope with his stress?

2. What are they all talking abut when Pharoah runs home to tell about his win?

3. Who is the newly appointed housing manager of Horner Homes?

4. What are the results of Vance Lane's efforts at CHA?

5. What causes one boy in Rickey's gang to get shot accidentally in the arm?

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