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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 Pharoah put on and spend thirty minutes grooming himself before the party?
(a) a new blue suit
(b) a green shorts set
(c) a new Blackhawks jacket
(d) a white jogging suit

2. Who buys Pharoah a hot dog at the Boys Club?
(a) LaJoe
(b) Rickey
(c) Terrance
(d) Lafeyette

3. Who threatens to bash LaJoe's head in because she ignores his flirtations?
(a) Pharoah's new male teacher
(b) Keith, a man in his late forties
(c) a policeman
(d) the man who collects the rent

4. Why does Lafeyette dislike his public defender?
(a) She has no time to listen to him.
(b) She is tall and intimidating.
(c) He looks like Mr. Graves.
(d) He never looks at Lafeyette.

5. What is it that Vince Lane does not know until the Horner residents inform him?
(a) the condition of the basement
(b) the dangerous electrical wiring
(c) the number of murders
(d) the heat in the winter

Short Answer Questions

1. A year later, what does Craig Davis' mother decide to do?

2. What is it called when a hospital sends a patient to another hospital?

3. What has changed about Lafeyette?

4. Who is presiding over Terrence's trial for armed robbery?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Rickey do that displeases LaJoe?

2. Why does Pharoah stay up all night on December 30th?

3. What does Gwen Anderson tell the CHA about the basement?

4. How do Pharoah and Lafeyette happen to run into Rickey on their way for a treat?

5. Why is Lafeyette put in charge of the children and what is his behavior like?

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

7. Describe the shooting of Craig Davis.

8. What happens at the hearing in spite of Anne Rhodes' telling the judge she does not think Lafeyette is guilty?

9. What are Lafeyette's nightmares like?

10. What are some of the improvements Vincent Lane is able to make in the projects?

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