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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 begins to happen to try and reduce the violence in the projects?

2. How does LaJoe see to it that the children have a good Christmas?

3. What is Lafeyette's sentence?

4. Where is Pharoah going during the summer of 1989?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the conflict between Lafeyette and Paul over the puppy Rickey gave him.

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

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

4. How do Pharoah and Lafeyette happen to run into Rickey on their way for a treat?

5. Describe the shooting of Craig Davis.

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Beginning with the positive influence Diana Barone had on Pharoah, write an essay about a particular teacher who inspired and influenced you. Be specific about things that teacher said and did which inspired you to be better at something. Maybe it was not scholastic excellence but some other aspect of your life the teacher impacted.

Essay Topic 2

Write a paper on pacifism. Starting with Pharoah who avoids physical conflict and often goes to his secret place where he feels safe, discuss the idea that pacifism has the advantage of not escalating conflict. You may want to mention Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in your paper. Show how pacifism is not the same thing as weakness.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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