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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Summer 1989, Chapter 27.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What had happened to Urica after her mother, her four-year-old sister, and her mother's boyfriend were killed?
(a) She was taken to LaJoe to care for her.
(b) She had hid under a box and the killers did not see her.
(c) She was stabbed forty-eight times but miraculously survived
(d) She went into shock and could not speak.

2. How have the stadium's owners, the Wirz family, changed the character of the neighborhood?
(a) by helping homeowners paint their houses
(b) by bulldozing homes for parking lots
(c) by putting up youth facilities
(d) by planting trees and flowers in the neighborhood

3. How does Lafeyette cope with his stress?
(a) sitting on the railroad tracks
(b) cleaning
(c) fighting
(d) bullying his siblings

4. What impediment gets worse in Pharoah after all the summer violence?
(a) his nightmares
(b) his limp
(c) his lisp
(d) his stutter

5. When does Lafeyette lose another friend who dies in a car accident during a police chase?
(a) a week after Craig's funeral
(b) two days after Craig's funeral
(c) a month later that same spring
(d) the same day Craig is shot

Short Answer Questions

1. A week after Craig's funeral, what weather condition takes place?

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

3. What is it called when the gang members break a side window of a car at a stoplight and grab a purse or briefcase on the seat?

4. Where does Pharoah want Lafeyette to take him?

5. Why will Pharaoh not wear his nylon jacket with the Blackhawk logo?

(see the answer key)

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