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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 Blackhawks jacket
(b) a new blue suit
(c) a green shorts set
(d) a white jogging suit

2. Why do LaJoe and Rochelle decorate the apartment?
(a) just to brighten up their lives
(b) a surprise birthday party for Pharoah
(c) for Christmas
(d) Terrance is coming home

3. Why is Pharoah worried that even if he achieves a high school diploma, he will not be able to get out of the projects?
(a) His brother in prison will alarm people.
(b) Everyone will think he forged the diploma.
(c) There will only be poor jobs available for blacks.
(d) Dawn has been unable to escape.

4. Why does LaJoe want to try and move away from Horner?
(a) so that the children can go to a better school
(b) so that she can find a job
(c) so the police cannot find Lafeyette
(d) so Terrence won't have to return to Horner

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Craig killed?

2. What are they all talking abut when Pharoah runs home to tell about his win?

3. What has Terrence accomplished in prison?

4. Why does Lafeyette develop a terrible cough?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the special fear of Pharoah?

4. What are the projects like in the winter?

5. What does Rickey do that displeases LaJoe?

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

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

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

9. How does LaJoe remember the day Terrence was sentenced since Terrence had requested that she not come to court that day?

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

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