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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Pharoah go with Lafeyette and Rickey and some other friends?
(a) window shopping at discount stores on Chicago Avenue
(b) the the top of Horner Homes
(c) to the museum of modern art
(d) to visit Bird Leg's grave

2. What type of person is Rickey?
(a) a kind boy everyoe likes
(b) a bookworm like Pharoah
(c) a small, frightened boy
(d) a bully and troublemaker in school

3. Why did the vacancy rate at Horner increase?
(a) old people kept dying off
(b) rumors of planned gentrification
(c) a typhoid outbreak
(d) an increase in the number of murders

4. What does Pharoah worry about as he prepares for the contest?
(a) his pronunciation
(b) his stutter
(c) his memory
(d) his clothes

5. What occurs with LaShawn and her two children, boyfriend, and boyfriend's brother ?
(a) They all move into the Rivers' apartment.
(b) They are all killed in a gang war.
(c) They help LaJoe move out of Horner.
(d) They steal LaJoe's food stamps.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is going on when Pharoah and the triplets come home from school three days after Lafeyette's birthday?

2. Who is Jimmie Lee?

3. What is the name of the young man who entertains outside of Horner Homes?

4. What do Lafeyette, Pharoah and their friends do at Chicago Blackhawk and Bulls games?

5. After Urica's testimony, how long does it take the jury to find Lawrence Jackson guilty of murder?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the boys sometimes make money?

2. How does Lafeyette's attitude change toward Rickey?

3. How does a policeman treat Lafeyette in the stadium parking lot?

4. Describe LaJoe in one or two sentences.

5. What is the quality of Henry Suder Elementary School?

6. Describe how the eight-year-old Urica testifies at a murder trial.

7. What is the accusation the local welfare office caseworkers bring against LaJoe?

8. Describe Pharoah's innate honesty.

9. Mention something about the character of Craig Davis.

10. What is the evidence the police collected against Jimmie Lee?

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