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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. Who is the only one LaJoe tells about the situation with the welfare board?

2. How does Terrance spend much of the visitation time?

3. Why does Pharoah love school?

4. How does Pharoah work on his stutter?

5. What accusation is brought against LaJoe?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain why LaJoe believes Terrence is innocent when she visits him in Cook County Jail.

2. Describe Pharoah's secret place.

3. Describe how the eight-year-old Urica testifies at a murder trial.

4. Describe Pharoah's problem that gets him eliminated from the spelling bee.

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

6. Explain what happens to Bird Leg.

7. Describe Pharoah's innate honesty.

8. What is LaJoe's expectations for Pharoah?

9. Explain the friendship between Pharoah and Rickey.

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

Write an essay on the exploitation of children. Begin with the need for Lafeyette to grow old before his time. Expand that theme to child soldiers and sweatshop laborers. Discuss how and why this exploitation happens to children all over the world.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay on the subject of "Living in Fear." Beginning with the constant shootings and murders in the Chicago projects, expand that subject to other examples of people living in fear. Write about living in fear in ones own family because of an abusive family member. Also include examples like countries where genocide is a common practice and people of certain ethnic or tribal identities are in constant fear of being slaughtered.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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