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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 Pharoah on his last word?
(a) He starts to stutter so bad that the judges cannot understand him.
(b) He suddenly needs to go to the bathroom.
(c) He spells the first four letters and then his throat closes up.
(d) He gets one of his severe headaches.

2. How does Pharoah think of the lush, grassy lawn around the condominium complex called Damen Courts?
(a) as his secret place
(b) as a dangerous place
(c) as his worst place
(d) as a forbidden place

3. What does Lafeyette hear someone was doing when he got his legs run over by a train?
(a) hunting for snakes
(b) hopping a moving box car
(c) walking on the railroad ties
(d) sleeping

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

5. 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?
(a) hit and run
(b) break and take
(c) smash and grabs
(d) break and run

Short Answer Questions

1. What event caused riots in the area around the Blackhawk stadium?

2. Who wants to know if Pharoah's cousin Dede will go out with him?

3. Who is LaJoe's childhood friend?

4. What is Bird Leg's obsession?

5. Why is Lafeyette against the friendship between Rickey and Pharoah?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe LaJoe in one or two sentences.

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

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

5. Describe Pharoah's secret place.

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

7. Explain what happens to Bird Leg.

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

9. What is the quality of Henry Suder Elementary School?

10. Mention something about the character of Craig Davis.

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