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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 is Lafeyette beginning to look like at the age of thriteen?
(a) like an old man
(b) like a wild animal
(c) like his father
(d) like a ghost

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

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

4. Who fights in LaJoe's apartment while she is out?
(a) Terrance and Rochell
(b) Tough Luck and Willie
(c) Rickey and Lafeyette
(d) The triplets and grandmother

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who makes up Rickey's gang?

2. Why do they rarely see Rickey anymore?

3. What can LaJoe not get a gang to stop doing near her house?

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

5. What is Lafeyette's sentence?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe Lafeyette's frame of mind at Craig's funeral.

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

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

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

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

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

9. What is the special fear of Pharoah?

10. What is the unfortunate coincidence involving Craig Davis and the police?

(see the answer keys)

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