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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What begins to happen to try and reduce the violence in the projects?
(a) building sweeps to try to get rid of the gangs
(b) rewards offered for turning in gang members
(c) enlarged police patrols in the area
(d) vigilante committees are formed

2. What does Weasel give Lafeyette and Pharoah?
(a) two pit bull puppies
(b) ten dollars each
(c) new shoes
(d) two Persian cats

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

4. What position had LaJoe's mother held when LaJoe was a child?
(a) Voting registrar
(b) the precinct captain for the Democratic Party
(c) County Clerk
(d) delegate to the Democratic National Convention

5. 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

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

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

8. 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) hanging around with Bird Leg
(d) when a gang jumped him outside

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

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

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

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

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

14. What are some of the problems at the Chicago Housing Authority?
(a) bureaucratic red tape
(b) terrible reputation and mismanagement issues
(c) racial prejudice and police brutality
(d) lack of finitiative and no organization

15. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Pharoah going during the summer of 1989?

2. In May of 1989, who holds a meeting with the Henry Horner tenants association?

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

4. What are they all talking abut when Pharoah runs home to tell about his win?

5. What does LaJoe witness that makes her put her foot down with Lafeyette?

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