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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 does Rickey call his new gang?
(a) the Horner Hornets
(b) the Four Corner Hustlers
(c) the Railroad Snakes
(d) the Avengers

2. Why does Lafeyette want to fight his father?
(a) He catches his father stealing LaJoe's savings.
(b) He wants his father to teach him how to win a fight.
(c) He thinks his father sold his puppy for drugs.
(d) He sees his father strike LaJoe.

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

4. What is Lafeyette's sentence?
(a) two years probation
(b) a year's probation and community service at the Boys Club
(c) a $500 fine and community service
(d) six months in the detention center

5. What destroyed Paul's relationship with LaJoe and now with his children?
(a) drugs
(b) abuse
(c) meanness
(d) women

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Lafeyette and Pharoah get accepted?

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

3. Why does LaJoe want to try and move away from Horner?

4. Where is Pharoah going during the summer of 1989?

5. Why does Lafeyette drop out of Providence-St. Mel?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How has Lafeyette's behavior changed since Craig's funeral?

3. Who is Vince Lane and what does he hope to accomplish?

4. What are Lafeyette's nightmares like?

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

6. Why does Terrence agree to participate in an armed robbery?

7. What hope is inspired in Pharoah as a result of his inclusion in the Upward Bound program at the University of Illinois?

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

9. Describe the shooting of Craig Davis.

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

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