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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through September 29, 1989, Chapter 31.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the racist policeman say to Lafeyette at the stadium?
(a) There's no room for black trash here.
(b) You black kids are all pushing dope.
(c) Black kids all belong to gangs.
(d) The white people don't have money to give to niggers.

2. What does Lafeyette hear someone was doing when he got his legs run over by a train?
(a) sleeping
(b) hopping a moving box car
(c) hunting for snakes
(d) walking on the railroad ties

3. What can LaJoe not get a gang to stop doing near her house?
(a) throwing rockes at the windows
(b) writing grafitti on the walls
(c) tormenting Pharoah
(d) beating a fourteen-year-old

4. What is going on when Pharoah and the triplets come home from school three days after Lafeyette's birthday?
(a) a family reunion
(b) a surprise party
(c) painting the apartment
(d) a gun battle

5. Why are some boys beating a man outside Horner Homes?
(a) They were trying to rob him.
(b) He was an undercover police officer.
(c) He was molesting one of the boys' cousins in a vacant apartment.
(d) He was trying to sell drugs to young children.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Vince Lane not start right away to clean up the basements?

2. What captivates Pharoah at Erol's Video Club?

3. What gives Pharoah a headache at the jail?

4. Where do the larger boys play when they visit the railway tracks?

5. How does Pharoah think of the lush, grassy lawn around the condominium complex called Damen Courts?

(see the answer key)

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