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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 makes up Rickey's gang?

2. What does Lafeyette think about LaShawn?

3. When does Lafeyette lose another friend who dies in a car accident during a police chase?

4. Who fights in LaJoe's apartment while she is out?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Rickey do that displeases LaJoe?

4. Why does Pharoah stay up all night on December 30th?

5. When Pharoah and Porkchop go to visit Dawn, what is her condition?

6. What improvements are made to the apartment in the summer of 1989?

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

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

9. What is it about public defender Anne Rhodes that Lafeyette does not understand?

10. What are the projects like in the winter?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay entitled "Kick the Dog." Begin with a story about a man who was harassed at work all day. When he comes home, the dog greets him with its tail wagging. The man, unable to fight back at work, takes his anger out by kicking the innocent dog. Using LaJoe and Lafeyette as examples, write your paper about how people often take out their frustrations of innocent and often helpless people.

Essay Topic 2

Write a critique of THERE ARE NO CHILDREN HERE. Discuss such things as the objectivity of the author, the examples he uses in the book, and what you think his purpose was in writing the book. Be sure to include your evaluation of the value in reading the book.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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