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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 solidifies the friendship between Rickey and Pharoah?
(a) Rickey punches a bully who had been picking on Pharoah.
(b) Rickey gives Pharoah his lunch money.
(c) Rickey starts dating Pharoah's cousin.
(d) Rickey saves Pharoah from getting hit by a bus.

2. How does Pharoah work on his stutter?
(a) using hand motions
(b) tongue twisters
(c) saying the words and letters slowly
(d) talking very softly

3. Why does Lafeyette not want to play basketball with the project boys?
(a) They are all older than he is.
(b) They might try to recruit him into a gang.
(c) They play too rough.
(d) They cheat.

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

5. What had happened to Urica after her mother, her four-year-old sister, and her mother's boyfriend were killed?
(a) She had hid under a box and the killers did not see her.
(b) She went into shock and could not speak.
(c) She was stabbed forty-eight times but miraculously survived
(d) She was taken to LaJoe to care for her.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What impediment gets worse in Pharoah after all the summer violence?

4. Where do the larger boys play when they visit the railway tracks?

5. What captivates Pharoah at Erol's Video Club?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain why Lafeyette becomes introverted after the death of Bird Leg.

2. How are Dawn and Demetrius singled out and publicized?

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

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

5. Describe the relationship between LaJoe and her husband, Paul.

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

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

8. How do the boys sometimes make money?

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

10. Describe Pharoah's innate honesty.

(see the answer keys)

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