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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Lafeyette and Pharoah want from Terrence?
(a) the key to his foot locker
(b) a promise he will not come home
(c) him to come home
(d) the name of his gang leader

2. 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?
(a) break and run
(b) hit and run
(c) break and take
(d) smash and grabs

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

4. When Rickey and Lafeyette shoplift, what are they unaware of?
(a) a manager pretending to be a customer
(b) an alarm system when someone takes without paying
(c) a security camera in the back room
(d) a policeman standing at the front door

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

6. What treats does LaJoe buy for the children?
(a) fresh fruit and popsicles
(b) small plastic toy filled with candy
(c) candy and chewing gum
(d) comic books and candy

7. What are two main threats to the safety of Lafeyette and Pharoah at the Henry Horner Homes?
(a) trains and busses
(b) food and education
(c) rats and snakes
(d) gun battles and gang influences

8. What did a friend do for the family?
(a) bought some groceries
(b) bailed Terrence out of jail
(c) gave Lafeyette a job
(d) helped LaJoe get her welfare back

9. Who did LaJoe meet at a dance hall when she was only thirteen, pretending to be sixteen?
(a) Jimmie Lee
(b) Paul
(c) Rickey
(d) Terrance

10. What happens to Pharoah on his last word?
(a) He spells the first four letters and then his throat closes up.
(b) He starts to stutter so bad that the judges cannot understand him.
(c) He gets one of his severe headaches.
(d) He suddenly needs to go to the bathroom.

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

12. Why is Lafeyette against the friendship between Rickey and Pharoah?
(a) He knows that Rickey is a thief.
(b) He thinks someone is out to kill Rickey.
(c) He worries that Rickey will lead Pharoah into trouble.
(d) He worries that Rickey will take his place with Pharoah.

13. What prison sentence was given to Jimmie Lee?
(a) the electric chair
(b) the maximum term of thirty years
(c) twenty years without parole
(d) life in prison

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

15. What type of person is Rickey?
(a) a bookworm like Pharoah
(b) a bully and troublemaker in school
(c) a small, frightened boy
(d) a kind boy everyoe likes

Short Answer Questions

1. What solidifies the friendship between Rickey and Pharoah?

2. Where does Bird Leg get food for his pets?

3. What event caused riots in the area around the Blackhawk stadium?

4. What has caused Pharoah to faint?

5. Where does Pharoah go with Lafeyette and Rickey and some other friends?

(see the answer keys)

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