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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 is the last word Pharoah is given to spell?
(a) endearing
(b) endurance
(c) endeavor
(d) indoctrinate

2. What does Pharoah bury outside the projects?
(a) two goldfish
(b) his homework
(c) a crowbar
(d) a dead cat

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

4. What do Lafeyette and Pharoah want from Terrence?
(a) a promise he will not come home
(b) the name of his gang leader
(c) the key to his foot locker
(d) him to come home

5. Why can LaJoe not defend herself well against the accusations?
(a) She is guilty.
(b) She has no education.
(c) She is too timid.
(d) She has no transportation to the hearing.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was LaJoe when she first came to the Henry Horner Projects?

2. What is it called when the gang members break a side window of a car at a stoplight and grab a purse or briefcase on the seat?

3. When Rickey and Lafeyette shoplift, what are they unaware of?

4. What prison sentence was given to Jimmie Lee?

5. Where does Bird Leg get his pets?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does LaJoe's house become overcrowded?

3. Explain what happens to Bird Leg.

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

5. How do the boys sometimes make money?

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

7. How does the teacher's strike of 1988 affect Pharoah?

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

9. Mention something about the character of Craig Davis.

10. Describe Lafeyette's academic qualities.

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