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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. What prison sentence was given to Jimmie Lee?
(a) life in prison
(b) twenty years without parole
(c) the electric chair
(d) the maximum term of thirty years

2. What does the young man do with Lafeyette?
(a) teaches him the guitar
(b) collects snakes
(c) shows him how to deejay
(d) plays basketball with him

3. What is keeping Pharoah out of school?
(a) a teacher's strike that lingers for weeks
(b) a serious case of measels
(c) nothing to wear
(d) fear of gang members

4. What has caused Pharoah to faint?
(a) the sounds of gunfire
(b) snakes at the tracks
(c) getting too hot
(d) deeing Bird Leg get shot

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why do Lafeyette and Rickey refuse to take Pharoah back to the railroad tracks?

4. How do the people at Horner Homes call Urica?

5. What do the children call the Henry Horner Homes?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Pharoah's innate honesty.

2. What are some of the serious problems with the construction of the Henry Horner homes?

3. How do the boys sometimes make money?

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

5. Explain the obsession Calvin Robinson has that Lafeyette finds interesting.

6. What is the contrast between the murders in an affluent school and the shooting of Alonzo at Horner?

7. Mention something about the character of Craig Davis.

8. How does LaJoe's house become overcrowded?

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

10. Describe Pharoah's problem that gets him eliminated from the spelling bee.

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