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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 warn his friends about in the basement?
(a) evil spirits
(b) poisonous snakes
(c) vampire bats
(d) human-headed cats

2. What begins to happen to try and reduce the violence in the projects?
(a) vigilante committees are formed
(b) building sweeps to try to get rid of the gangs
(c) enlarged police patrols in the area
(d) rewards offered for turning in gang members

3. What bad dream does Pharoah have after the sentencing of his older brother?
(a) Terrence confronts a monster that is chasing him.
(b) Terrence falls from a cliff.
(c) Terrence is carried away by a vulture.
(d) Terrence is swimming in the middle of the ocean;

4. What is happening outside when Lafeyette doesn't move off the couch and continues to calmly watch television?
(a) a fire
(b) a police raid
(c) gunshots
(d) a hail storm

5. What is the subject of the poem Craig had written that haunts Lafeyette?
(a) about life and death
(b) about angels
(c) about good citizenship
(d) about long life

Short Answer Questions

1. When LaJoe tells Weasel, her oldest son, what the man did to her, what does Weasel do?

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

3. Where do Lafeyette and Pharoah get accepted?

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

5. What does LaJoe witness that makes her put her foot down with Lafeyette?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What are Lafeyette's nightmares like?

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

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

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

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

8. Describe what Pharoah sees as the boys are eating their food outside the Main Street hot dog stand.

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

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

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