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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is making Lafeyette nervous?
(a) an upcoming court date
(b) his parole officer
(c) pressure on him to join Rickey's gang
(d) Pharoah's illness

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

5. A week after Craig's funeral, what weather condition takes place?
(a) a late snow
(b) a hail storm
(c) a tornado
(d) a heatwave

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

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

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

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

10. Who owns the luxury home with a marble staircase, sunken tub and Jacuzzi?
(a) the Playboy Club
(b) Mayor Daly
(c) the Chicago Mafia
(d) a family of drug runners

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

12. How does Craig Davis earn his living?
(a) as a stock boy for a stationery company
(b) as a Boys Club counselor
(c) as a gun dealer
(d) as a teacher

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

14. What does Craig do when he sees some police officers?
(a) falls to the ground
(b) panics and runs
(c) pulls out a gun
(d) holds up his hands

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rickey call his new gang?

2. What does Pharoah decide to clean to get out of Lafeyette's way?

3. What does LaJoe pin on her sweatshirt and wear for the rest of the day?

4. What does Weasel give Lafeyette and Pharoah?

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

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