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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Fall 1987 - Spring 1988, Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What seriously haunts Lafeyette?
(a) Bird Leg's death
(b) school homework
(c) the boy who lost his legs
(d) the pressure to join a gang

2. What evidence is there that Pharoah is comfortable in a classroom?
(a) He makes everyone laugh.
(b) He sits on the front row.
(c) He stutters less.
(d) He has no trouble breathing.

3. Where does Bird Leg get his pets?
(a) along the railroad tracks
(b) back yards of Hispanic and white neighborhoods
(c) at a pet store
(d) as gifts from friends

4. When another person is killed, why do Lafeyette and Pharoah refuse to go to the funeral?
(a) They had made plans to go to the tracks.
(b) They are still raw from Bird Leg's funeral.
(c) They had nothing good to wear.
(d) They did not like the dead boy.

5. Where does Pharoah want Lafeyette to take him?
(a) downtown Chicago
(b) to the railroad tracks
(c) up to Canada
(d) to the school year

Short Answer Questions

1. What is keeping Pharoah out of school?

2. What is going on when Pharoah and the triplets come home from school three days after Lafeyette's birthday?

3. Who is LaJoe's childhood friend?

4. Why does LaJoe send the boys to stay with her mother a few miles west?

5. How does James say they will all die?

(see the answer key)

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