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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does LaJoe pin on her sweatshirt and wear for the rest of the day?
(a) flowers given her by Pharoah
(b) school pictures of her youngest children
(c) Pharoah's and the triplets' school ribbons
(d) a medal Pharoah won in an essay contest

2. What is the subject of the poem Craig had written that haunts Lafeyette?
(a) about life and death
(b) about good citizenship
(c) about angels
(d) about long life

3. Who buys Pharoah a hot dog at the Boys Club?
(a) Rickey
(b) LaJoe
(c) Lafeyette
(d) Terrance

4. What is it that Vince Lane does not know until the Horner residents inform him?
(a) the condition of the basement
(b) the number of murders
(c) the dangerous electrical wiring
(d) the heat in the winter

5. Why does Pharoah dress up one spring morning?
(a) to go to a funeral
(b) to date Clarise
(c) for his spelling bee
(d) for good luck on his exams

6. When did Lafeyette start imagining about having a dog of his own?
(a) when tough Luck came with a gun
(b) when a gang jumped him outside
(c) hanging around with Bird Leg
(d) after Craig was killed

7. Where do Lafeyette and Pharoah get accepted?
(a) as members of the Boy Scouts
(b) in a University of Illinois pilot program
(c) in a private parochial school named Providence-St. Mel
(d) into the Zion Baptist church choir

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

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

10. How is Craig killed?
(a) run over by a train
(b) an automobile crash
(c) a gunshot to the head
(d) a gangland execution

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

12. Why does Lafeyette drop out of Providence-St. Mel?
(a) because he misses his public school friends
(b) because the Horner boys make fun of him
(c) because he is ashamed of his clothes
(d) because he finds the work too challenging

13. What does LaJoe witness that makes her put her foot down with Lafeyette?
(a) some boys abducting a young girl
(b) some boys setting fire to a business
(c) some boys selling drugs on the street
(d) some boys attempting a murder

14. What is clear about the judge in Lafeyette's hearing at Juvenile Detention?
(a) He is tired and wants to go home.
(b) He is prejudiced against black juveniles.
(c) He doesn't believe Lafeyette's version of events.
(d) He is kind and understanding.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What bad dream does Pharoah have after the sentencing of his older brother?

2. Terrence commit the crime of ______________ and faces a ten year sentence.

3. What does Pharoah admit is his greatest fear?

4. How does Lafeyette dress for Craig's funeral?

5. What does Pharoah decide to clean to get out of Lafeyette's way?

(see the answer keys)

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