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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is it called when a hospital sends a patient to another hospital?
(a) reference managing
(b) outpatient care
(c) patient dumping
(d) ambulance running

4. What does LaJoe witness that makes her put her foot down with Lafeyette?
(a) some boys abducting a young girl
(b) some boys setting fire to a business
(c) some boys selling drugs on the street
(d) some boys attempting a murder

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

6. 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 is ashamed of his clothes
(d) because he misses his public school friends

7. Who is the newly appointed housing manager of Horner Homes?
(a) John Daly
(b) Mr. Rogers
(c) LaJoe Rivers
(d) Gwen Anderson

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

9. What incriminating thing had Derrick said to the truck owner at the stadium?
(a) that the truck would be stolen if he didn't watch it
(b) that a gang would come and and destroy the truck
(c) that he would hate for anything to happen to his truck
(d) that the man would be sorry he turned him down

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

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

12. Why do the families of the boys refuse to pay damages for the truck?
(a) They don't understand the offer.
(b) They know the boys are innocent.
(c) They don't like the truck owner.
(d) They can't afford it.

13. Where do Lafeyette and Pharoah get accepted?
(a) in a University of Illinois pilot program
(b) as members of the Boy Scouts
(c) in a private parochial school named Providence-St. Mel
(d) into the Zion Baptist church choir

14. How does Lafeyette cope with his stress?
(a) cleaning
(b) sitting on the railroad tracks
(c) fighting
(d) bullying his siblings

15. What does Pharoah decide to clean to get out of Lafeyette's way?
(a) the windows
(b) the stove
(c) the bathrooms
(d) the hallway

Short Answer Questions

1. A year later, what does Craig Davis' mother decide to do?

2. What has Terrence accomplished in prison?

3. What is Lafeyette beginning to look like at the age of thriteen?

4. What causes one boy in Rickey's gang to get shot accidentally in the arm?

5. What is the rumor going around the projects?

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