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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. Why do Lafeyette and Rickey refuse to take Pharoah back to the railroad tracks?
(a) they think they are too old to play there anymore
(b) they think Pharoah is too young to hang out with
(c) they have lost their interest in finding snakes
(d) more rumors spread about the dangers in the area

2. What does Terrance claim loudly?
(a) that the guards beat him
(b) that the food is terrible
(c) that he is innocent of the crime
(d) that he will break out

3. What do the boys use to hunt for garter snakes?
(a) railroad spikes
(b) a crowbar
(c) spades
(d) a cat

4. How do the people at Horner Homes call Urica?
(a) the miracle child
(b) a liar
(c) the lucky one
(d) the rat

5. What happens to Pharoah on his last word?
(a) He spells the first four letters and then his throat closes up.
(b) He suddenly needs to go to the bathroom.
(c) He starts to stutter so bad that the judges cannot understand him.
(d) He gets one of his severe headaches.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did a friend do for the family?

2. How do Lafeyette and Pharoah refer to the escalating gang wars and gun battles?

3. What does Pharoah bury outside the projects?

4. How is Bird Leg killed?

5. What is Pharoah entered in at school?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Pharoah's innate honesty.

3. Describe Lafeyette's academic qualities.

4. Describe the severity of Pharoah's speech impediment.

5. How does LaJoe's house become overcrowded?

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

7. What is LaJoe's expectations for Pharoah?

8. How is the character of Pharoah developed in the story by how he cannot lie to LaJoe?

9. Explain why LaJoe believes Terrence is innocent when she visits him in Cook County Jail.

10. Explain what happens to Bird Leg.

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