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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 happens to LaJoe at the welfare meeting?
(a) Her children are removed.
(b) Her benefits are cut off.
(c) She is taken to the hospital.
(d) She is taken to jail.

2. Where do the larger boys play when they visit the railway tracks?
(a) under a box car
(b) in the tall weeds
(c) in an empty box car
(d) on the tracks

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

4. What impediment gets worse in Pharoah after all the summer violence?
(a) his stutter
(b) his limp
(c) his nightmares
(d) his lisp

5. What is the nickname of the child Terrance fathered at age fourteen?
(a) Rabbit
(b) Rags
(c) Teddy Bear
(d) Snuggles

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Bird Leg get his pets?

2. What type of person is Rickey?

3. Who is LaJoe's childhood friend?

4. Who did LaJoe meet at a dance hall when she was only thirteen, pretending to be sixteen?

5. Where does Bird Leg get food for his pets?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the friendship between Pharoah and Rickey.

2. Describe the emotions of the project boys and the train passengers as a train passes while the boys search for snakes.

3. How do the boys sometimes make money?

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

5. Describe LaJoe in one or two sentences.

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

7. Describe Pharoah's secret place.

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

9. What is LaJoe's expectations for Pharoah?

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

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