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

2. What does the teacher, Mr. Rogers, promise the class if either Clarise or Pharoah wins the spelling bee?

3. What has Terrence accomplished in prison?

4. What are the results of Vance Lane's efforts at CHA?

5. When LaJoe tells Weasel, her oldest son, what the man did to her, what does Weasel do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Rickey do that displeases LaJoe?

2. What hope is inspired in Pharoah as a result of his inclusion in the Upward Bound program at the University of Illinois?

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

4. Describe the shooting of Craig Davis.

5. What is the unfortunate coincidence involving Craig Davis and the police?

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

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

8. What happens to Lafeyette and Pharoah in regard to their education?

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

10. Why do LaJoe and Lafeyette back off from trying to stop the beating of a man by some Horner gang members?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Twenty years after the events in 1989 involving Pharoah and his drive for an education, America elected its first African-American President who, interestingly, got his first job working in the Chicago housing projects. Write an essay about how young people like Pharoah began seeing greater opportunities during the last two decades.

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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