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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 treats does LaJoe buy for the children?
(a) fresh fruit and popsicles
(b) small plastic toy filled with candy
(c) comic books and candy
(d) candy and chewing gum

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

3. What evidence is there that Pharoah is comfortable in a classroom?
(a) He sits on the front row.
(b) He stutters less.
(c) He has no trouble breathing.
(d) He makes everyone laugh.

4. What can Pharoah do in his secret place?
(a) watch the girls jump rope
(b) play with puppies
(c) clear his mind of everything there
(d) practice his spelling

5. Who is the one person with whom Pharoah is comfortable?
(a) his cousin Porkchop
(b) his brother Lafeyette
(c) his mother LaJoe
(d) the triplets

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes Pharoah feel uncomfortable on Chicago Avenue?

2. What does Lafeyette hear someone was doing when he got his legs run over by a train?

3. How does Pharoah think of the lush, grassy lawn around the condominium complex called Damen Courts?

4. What happens to LaJoe at the welfare meeting?

5. Bird Leg's cousin, Rickey, is full of rage. Why?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe LaJoe in one or two sentences.

5. Point out the contradictions in the character of Jimmie Lee.

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

7. When Lafeyette is caught shoplifting, how does LaJoe react?

8. How does LaJoe's house become overcrowded?

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

10. Describe Lafeyette's academic qualities.

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