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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. When did Lafeyette start imagining about having a dog of his own?
(a) after Craig was killed
(b) when a gang jumped him outside
(c) hanging around with Bird Leg
(d) when tough Luck came with a gun

2. Where are Craig and his friends going when he comes across Francis Higgins and Richard Marianos?
(a) on the way to a Blackhawk game
(b) on their way to pick up the stereo equipment
(c) on the way to make a drug drop
(d) on the way to downtown Chicago

3. What causes Gwen Anderson to vomit in the basement?
(a) the smell of rotting animal carcasses and feces
(b) the leakage from the sewer system
(c) the dead body of a baby
(d) a child tied up and kept down there

4. Who makes up Rickey's gang?
(a) boys only thirteen- or fourteen-years-old
(b) drug runners
(c) boys all older than he is
(d) mostly girls in the projects

5. What causes one boy in Rickey's gang to get shot accidentally in the arm?
(a) They think the gun is not loaded.
(b) They are high on marijuana.
(c) They are playing Russian roulette.
(d) Rickey stumbles and the gun goes off accidentally.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does LaJoe buy for them to eat downtown?

2. Who is Clarise?

3. What does the teacher, Mr. Rogers, promise the class if either Clarise or Pharoah wins the spelling bee?

4. What is different about Terrence's appearance at the trial?

5. Why does Lafeyette dislike his public defender?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the judge make LaJoe feel after Lafeyette's hearing?

2. What does Rickey do that displeases LaJoe?

3. What happens to Lafeyette and Pharoah in regard to their education?

4. How does Pharoah react to his visit to the courtroom?

5. How does Pharoah prepare for the next spelling bee?

6. Describe the conflict between Lafeyette and Paul over the puppy Rickey gave him.

7. Describe Lafeyette's brush with the law that gets him arrested.

8. When Pharoah and Porkchop go to visit Dawn, what is her condition?

9. Describe the shooting of Craig Davis.

10. Why do LaJoe and Lafeyette back off from trying to stop the beating of a man by some Horner gang members?

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