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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. How do Lafeyette and Pharoah refer to the escalating gang wars and gun battles?
(a) as the war zone
(b) as the excitement
(c) as the boom box
(d) as the death train

2. Why does Lafeyette not want to play basketball with the project boys?
(a) They might try to recruit him into a gang.
(b) They play too rough.
(c) They are all older than he is.
(d) They cheat.

3. Why does Lafeyette want to fight his father?
(a) He thinks his father sold his puppy for drugs.
(b) He sees his father strike LaJoe.
(c) He catches his father stealing LaJoe's savings.
(d) He wants his father to teach him how to win a fight.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Dawn, Porkchop's sister, about to do?

2. Who is the teacher Lafeyette likes a great deal?

3. Who do they meet on the way and invite to join them?

4. What do Lafeyette, Pharoah and their friends do at Chicago Blackhawk and Bulls games?

5. What does the young man do with Lafeyette?

(see the answer key)

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