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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rickey call his new gang?
(a) the Railroad Snakes
(b) the Four Corner Hustlers
(c) the Horner Hornets
(d) the Avengers

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

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

4. Which child did LaJoe take with her to Terrence's trial?
(a) Pharoah
(b) Lafeyette
(c) Weasel
(d) Rochelle

5. Who are Francis Higgins and Richard Marianos?
(a) gun dealers
(b) teachers at Pharoah's school
(c) drug enforcement officers
(d) two white police officers

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

7. What can LaJoe not get a gang to stop doing near her house?
(a) tormenting Pharoah
(b) throwing rockes at the windows
(c) writing grafitti on the walls
(d) beating a fourteen-year-old

8. Why does Lafeyette want to fight his father?
(a) He thinks his father sold his puppy for drugs.
(b) He wants his father to teach him how to win a fight.
(c) He catches his father stealing LaJoe's savings.
(d) He sees his father strike LaJoe.

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

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

11. What does Lafeyette think about LaShawn?
(a) He thinks she has cancer.
(b) He suspects she is taking drugs again.
(c) He thinks she is pregnant again.
(d) He suspects she is working with the police.

12. What is Lafeyette's sentence?
(a) a year's probation and community service at the Boys Club
(b) a $500 fine and community service
(c) two years probation
(d) six months in the detention center

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

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

15. Why is Pharoah worried that even if he achieves a high school diploma, he will not be able to get out of the projects?
(a) His brother in prison will alarm people.
(b) Dawn has been unable to escape.
(c) There will only be poor jobs available for blacks.
(d) Everyone will think he forged the diploma.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is presiding over Terrence's trial for armed robbery?

3. What incriminating thing had Derrick said to the truck owner at the stadium?

4. Why doesn't LaJoe take Lafeyette downtown to see the holiday window decorations?

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

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