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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is keeping Pharoah out of school?

2. What do the boys use to hunt for garter snakes?

3. Why does LaJoe send the boys to stay with her mother a few miles west?

4. Where do the larger boys play when they visit the railway tracks?

5. Who is LaJoe's childhood friend?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the teacher's strike of 1988 affect Pharoah?

2. Explain the obsession Calvin Robinson has that Lafeyette finds interesting.

3. Describe Lafeyette's academic qualities.

4. Describe the relationship between LaJoe and her husband, Paul.

5. How does Lafeyette's attitude change toward Rickey?

6. How does a policeman treat Lafeyette in the stadium parking lot?

7. How is the character of Pharoah developed in the story by how he cannot lie to LaJoe?

8. Describe Pharoah's secret place.

9. How are Dawn and Demetrius singled out and publicized?

10. What is the quality of Henry Suder Elementary School?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay on the subject of experience and education. Start with Pharoah who knew from reading that there is supposed to be gold or leprechauns at the end of a rainbow but had never seen one. Discuss in your paper how book study and experience are both part of becoming educated.

Essay Topic 2

Now that you have read the book, THERE ARE NO CHILDREN HERE, write a paper about what you now know about the lives of people living in poverty. Why is the gang culture so prevalent in slum areas and ghettos? Discuss whether your attitudes have been altered about people living in poverty.

Essay Topic 3

Write a paper on the value of hope in life. Explain why it is important for people to believe figuratively in the gold and leprechauns at the end of the rainbow. What is the value of life without hope? Do you see it as logical that people who have no hope also have no sense of moral responsibility?

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