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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes one boy in Rickey's gang to get shot accidentally in the arm?
(a) They are playing Russian roulette.
(b) They are high on marijuana.
(c) They think the gun is not loaded.
(d) Rickey stumbles and the gun goes off accidentally.

2. During the party, what does Dawn come running in to warn about?
(a) gang activity going on in the next building
(b) a fire in the next building
(c) a police raid in the neighborhood
(d) a riot in the streets

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

4. A year later, what does Craig Davis' mother decide to do?
(a) to file a lawsuit against the ATF
(b) move to Alabama
(c) give her sons recordings to Lafeyette
(d) buy a gravestone for her son

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

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

7. What does Pharoah admit is his greatest fear?
(a) snakes
(b) never seeing his family again
(c) going down to the basement
(d) dying young

8. Terrence commit the crime of ______________ and faces a ten year sentence.
(a) driving under the influence
(b) armed burglary
(c) extortion
(d) attempted murder

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

10. Who makes up Rickey's gang?
(a) boys only thirteen- or fourteen-years-old
(b) drug runners
(c) boys all older than he is
(d) mostly girls in the projects

11. 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

12. What destroyed Paul's relationship with LaJoe and now with his children?
(a) women
(b) abuse
(c) meanness
(d) drugs

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

14. What bad dream does Pharoah have after the sentencing of his older brother?
(a) Terrence falls from a cliff.
(b) Terrence is swimming in the middle of the ocean;
(c) Terrence is carried away by a vulture.
(d) Terrence confronts a monster that is chasing him.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wants to believe in magical things and be able to dream and imagine?

2. How does LaJoe see to it that the children have a good Christmas?

3. What does Craig do when he sees some police officers?

4. What does Pharoah warn his friends about in the basement?

5. Why does Vince Lane not start right away to clean up the basements?

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