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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pharoah warn his friends about in the basement?
(a) human-headed cats
(b) evil spirits
(c) poisonous snakes
(d) vampire bats

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

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

4. Where are Craig and his friends going when he comes across Francis Higgins and Richard Marianos?
(a) on the way to a Blackhawk game
(b) on their way to pick up the stereo equipment
(c) on the way to make a drug drop
(d) on the way to downtown Chicago

5. What does LaJoe resolve to do for the younger children in the future?
(a) to take them on trips more often
(b) to keep a closer eye on them
(c) to send them to live with her mother
(d) to get them all new shoes

6. What is happening outside when Lafeyette doesn't move off the couch and continues to calmly watch television?
(a) a hail storm
(b) a fire
(c) gunshots
(d) a police raid

7. 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

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

9. 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) Dawn has been unable to escape.
(b) There will only be poor jobs available for blacks.
(c) Everyone will think he forged the diploma.
(d) His brother in prison will alarm people.

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

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

12. Why do they rarely see Rickey anymore?
(a) He has been to visit his relatives in New York.
(b) He is hiding from the police.
(c) He only hangs out with older boys now.
(d) He has been in and out of juvenile detention.

13. What is Pharoah's latest interest?
(a) girls
(b) writing
(c) politics
(d) medicine

14. How does Lafeyette dress for Craig's funeral?
(a) in one of Terrence's suits
(b) in a deejay outfit
(c) in his only clean clothes
(d) in new jeans and a sweater

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pharoah see that makes him stutter again?

2. How is Craig killed?

3. What position had LaJoe's mother held when LaJoe was a child?

4. Who owns the luxury home with a marble staircase, sunken tub and Jacuzzi?

5. When are the projects stifling hot?

(see the answer keys)

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