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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has changed about Lafeyette?
(a) He no longer wears hats or earrings.
(b) He never smiles anymore.
(c) He refuses to care for the children.
(d) He has lost a great deal of weight.

2. Why do the families of the boys refuse to pay damages for the truck?
(a) They can't afford it.
(b) They know the boys are innocent.
(c) They don't like the truck owner.
(d) They don't understand the offer.

3. When LaJoe tells Weasel, her oldest son, what the man did to her, what does Weasel do?
(a) He calls the police.
(b) He finds Keith and beats him up.
(c) He takes a gun and shoots Keith.
(d) He gets his gang to beat up Keith.

4. Where is Craig taken and eventually pronounced dead?
(a) Hormer Homes
(b) Cook County Jail
(c) Chicago General
(d) Mount Sinai Hospital

5. Why does LaJoe want to try and move away from Horner?
(a) so that she can find a job
(b) so Terrence won't have to return to Horner
(c) so the police cannot find Lafeyette
(d) so that the children can go to a better school

6. What is LaJoe able at last to make?
(a) the last payment on used bunk beds for the children
(b) macrame wall decorations
(c) a chocolate cake
(d) a party for Dawn

7. What does the teacher, Mr. Rogers, promise the class if either Clarise or Pharoah wins the spelling bee?
(a) no homework
(b) a party
(c) extra credit
(d) a movie

8. What is different about Terrence's appearance at the trial?
(a) His heair is all shaved off.
(b) He looked older and scared.
(c) He had been lifting weights and is now very muscular.
(d) His hair had started turning gray.

9. When does Lafeyette lose another friend who dies in a car accident during a police chase?
(a) the same day Craig is shot
(b) a week after Craig's funeral
(c) a month later that same spring
(d) two days after Craig's funeral

10. Who fights in LaJoe's apartment while she is out?
(a) Terrance and Rochell
(b) The triplets and grandmother
(c) Rickey and Lafeyette
(d) Tough Luck and Willie

11. Where does Lafeyette get Pahroah to agree to go?
(a) to a rock concert
(b) a nearby hot dog stand
(c) to watch cars at the stadium
(d) to visit Terrance in jail

12. Who is presiding over Terrence's trial for armed robbery?
(a) Judge Roy Bean
(b) Judge Dread
(c) Judge Mahan
(d) Judge Judy

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

14. What does Pharoah see that makes him stutter again?
(a) an elephant
(b) a murder
(c) a rainbow
(d) a police car

15. A week after Craig's funeral, what weather condition takes place?
(a) a heatwave
(b) a tornado
(c) a hail storm
(d) a late snow

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Lafeyette's sentence?

2. What is Lafeyette beginning to look like at the age of thriteen?

3. What does Pharoah put on and spend thirty minutes grooming himself before the party?

4. What does LaJoe witness that makes her put her foot down with Lafeyette?

5. How does Craig Davis earn his living?

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