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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Clarise?
(a) LaJoe's cousin
(b) Rickey's bad sister
(c) the smartest girl in Pharoah's class
(d) Pharoah's new girlfriend

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

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

4. Why does Lafeyette develop a terrible cough?
(a) Because the policeman threw him in a puddle.
(b) The open windows let in a cold winter draft.
(c) He catches it from Rickey.
(d) He stays out all night in the winter.

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

6. What are the results of Vance Lane's efforts at CHA?
(a) The basements are sealed off.
(b) He is fired for making waves.
(c) A few things do improve in the neighborhood.
(d) Everyone's rent goes up.

7. At the Boys Club program, what is the response to the question, "Don't you live your country?"
(a) The applause is deafening and Pharoah gets a headache.
(b) Everyone stands and puts their hands over their hearts.
(c) The crowd roars "no", drowning out Pharoah's quiet "yes."
(d) There is dead silence in the stands.

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

9. Who threatens to bash LaJoe's head in because she ignores his flirtations?
(a) Keith, a man in his late forties
(b) the man who collects the rent
(c) Pharoah's new male teacher
(d) a policeman

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

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

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

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

14. Why is Lafeyette arrested?
(a) allegedly breaking and entering houses
(b) allegedly selling drugs
(c) allegedly breaking into a truck near the stadium
(d) allegedly snatching a woman's purse

15. What are they all talking abut when Pharoah runs home to tell about his win?
(a) about Craig's death
(b) about the plumbing
(c) about Leila Mae's accident
(d) about the weather

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Lafeyette lose another friend who dies in a car accident during a police chase?

2. What does Lafeyette think about LaShawn?

3. Under what condition will the truck owner drop the charges against the five boys?

4. What does LaJoe buy for them to eat downtown?

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

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