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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 different about Terrence's appearance at the trial?

2. What is LaJoe able at last to make?

3. Why are LaJoe and Lafeyette waiting in a room at the detention center?

4. Who owns the luxury home with a marble staircase, sunken tub and Jacuzzi?

5. Why is Lafeyette arrested?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Terrence agree to participate in an armed robbery?

2. What are the projects like in the winter?

3. What are some of the improvements Vincent Lane is able to make in the projects?

4. Why does LaJoe's mother move out and how do the boys feel about her moving?

5. What are Lafeyette's nightmares like?

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

7. What happens at the hearing in spite of Anne Rhodes' telling the judge she does not think Lafeyette is guilty?

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

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

10. What is the special fear of Pharoah?

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 an essay on social welfare systems in America. Give a balanced view, expressing the ways in which it certainly has helped a number of people. On the other hand, mention its inadequacies and offer suggestions about how it might be improved.

Essay Topic 3

Using LaJoe, Dawn, and LaShawn as examples, write a paper on the problem of teenage pregnancy. Discuss why it happens and why efforts to prevent teen pregnancies have not been all that successful. Discuss the other problems these young women face after their first child is born. Give your ideas of how the problem might be addressed.

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