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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. How does Lafeyette cope with his stress?
2. Who owns the luxury home with a marble staircase, sunken tub and Jacuzzi?
3. Why is Lafeyette arrested?
4. What destroyed Paul's relationship with LaJoe and now with his children?
5. When did Lafeyette start imagining about having a dog of his own?
Short Essay Questions
1. What improvements are made to the apartment in the summer of 1989?
2. What is the special fear of Pharoah?
3. Describe the conflict between Lafeyette and Paul over the puppy Rickey gave him.
4. Why is Lafeyette put in charge of the children and what is his behavior like?
5. Why does Terrence agree to participate in an armed robbery?
6. What happens at the hearing in spite of Anne Rhodes' telling the judge she does not think Lafeyette is guilty?
7. Why do LaJoe and Lafeyette back off from trying to stop the beating of a man by some Horner gang members?
8. What does Rickey do that displeases LaJoe?
9. Who is Vince Lane and what does he hope to accomplish?
10. How does the judge make LaJoe feel after Lafeyette's hearing?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
When faced with the prospect of going to prison for a crime he did not commit, Terrence participated in an armed robbery with the attitude that he might as well commit the crime he had been accused of. Write a paper on the possibility of false imprisonment in the judicial system. Explain why it is possible and what makes it seem to happen so often.
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
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.
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