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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 Dawn, Porkchop's sister, about to do?

2. How many inmates was the Cook County jail built to house?

3. What has caused Pharoah to faint?

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

5. How do the people at Horner Homes call Urica?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the evidence the police collected against Jimmie Lee?

2. Describe Pharoah's secret place.

3. Describe Pharoah's innate honesty.

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

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

6. Describe the severity of Pharoah's speech impediment.

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

8. Describe Lafeyette's academic qualities.

9. What is LaJoe's expectations for Pharoah?

10. Describe the emotions of the project boys and the train passengers as a train passes while the boys search for snakes.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Using Jimmie Lee as an example, write an essay on America's prison system. Discuss how incarceration more often than not turns out hardened criminals who earn their rank while in prison. Give your suggestions of how the prison system might be improved so that inmates are really rehabilitated.

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay entitled "Society's Forgotten People." In addition to the example of the Rivers family, mention other groups of people our society fails. In the essay, discuss how people are measured by the amount of material things they possess and the money they have in the bank and in investments.

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