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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who do they meet on the way and invite to join them?
(a) Vince
(b) Craig
(c) Rickey
(d) Porkchop
2. What is it that Vince Lane does not know until the Horner residents inform him?
(a) the dangerous electrical wiring
(b) the condition of the basement
(c) the heat in the winter
(d) the number of murders
3. What is the subject of the poem Craig had written that haunts Lafeyette?
(a) about long life
(b) about life and death
(c) about good citizenship
(d) about angels
4. In May of 1989, who holds a meeting with the Henry Horner tenants association?
(a) James Howard
(b) Craig Davis
(c) Vincent Lane
(d) Dawn Adams
5. Which child did LaJoe take with her to Terrence's trial?
(a) Pharoah
(b) Rochelle
(c) Weasel
(d) Lafeyette
6. Where are Craig and his friends going when he comes across Francis Higgins and Richard Marianos?
(a) on the way to downtown Chicago
(b) on the way to a Blackhawk game
(c) on their way to pick up the stereo equipment
(d) on the way to make a drug drop
7. What does the teacher, Mr. Rogers, promise the class if either Clarise or Pharoah wins the spelling bee?
(a) a movie
(b) extra credit
(c) no homework
(d) a party
8. What is the rumor going around the projects?
(a) that the city plans to tear the buildings down for a new stadium
(b) that they will all be evicted so the place can be rebuilt
(c) that the rents will all go up when they clean it up
(d) that the tenants will be charged for all the damage to the place
9. How does Lafeyette dress for Craig's funeral?
(a) in a deejay outfit
(b) in new jeans and a sweater
(c) in one of Terrence's suits
(d) in his only clean clothes
10. Who owns the luxury home with a marble staircase, sunken tub and Jacuzzi?
(a) the Playboy Club
(b) a family of drug runners
(c) Mayor Daly
(d) the Chicago Mafia
11. When does Lafeyette lose another friend who dies in a car accident during a police chase?
(a) two days after Craig's funeral
(b) the same day Craig is shot
(c) a month later that same spring
(d) a week after Craig's funeral
12. What destroyed Paul's relationship with LaJoe and now with his children?
(a) meanness
(b) drugs
(c) abuse
(d) women
13. What does Pharoah see that makes him stutter again?
(a) a police car
(b) an elephant
(c) a murder
(d) a rainbow
14. Who is the newly appointed housing manager of Horner Homes?
(a) John Daly
(b) Gwen Anderson
(c) Mr. Rogers
(d) LaJoe Rivers
15. What is making Lafeyette nervous?
(a) his parole officer
(b) pressure on him to join Rickey's gang
(c) an upcoming court date
(d) Pharoah's illness
Short Answer Questions
1. What can LaJoe not get a gang to stop doing near her house?
2. Where is Pharoah going during the summer of 1989?
3. Where does Lafeyette get Pahroah to agree to go?
4. Who fights in LaJoe's apartment while she is out?
5. What are they all talking abut when Pharoah runs home to tell about his win?
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