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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is LaJoe's one hope of having a child graduate from high school and go on to college?
(a) Terrance
(b) Pharoah
(c) Lafeyette
(d) Rochelle

2. Why does LaJoe send the boys to stay with her mother a few miles west?
(a) to lower her food bill
(b) for their safety
(c) to help her mother
(d) to let her oldest daughter return home

3. What captivates Pharoah at Erol's Video Club?
(a) the space movies
(b) the video machines
(c) the cartoons
(d) the Wrestle Mania movies

4. 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) gun battles and gang influences
(d) rats and snakes

5. Why is eight-year-old Urica Winder in court?
(a) as a shoplifter
(b) as a witness to murder
(c) as a child prostitute
(d) as a front for a gang

6. How does Terrance spend much of the visitation time?
(a) complaining about the other inmates
(b) talking about how he is going to change
(c) making a list of things for LaJoe to bring him
(d) lecturing Lafeyette to stay in school and out of trouble

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

8. What do the children call the Henry Horner Homes?
(a) the hole or the box
(b) the battleground
(c) Hornets, the projects, or the 'jects
(d) the jail or the dump

9. Who is Jimmie Lee?
(a) head of a drug gang called the Conservative Vice Lords whose members control Henry Horner
(b) a rock and roll singer who grew up in the Henry Horner Homes
(c) a policeman who really wants to do something for the project children
(d) a drug addict who terrorizes the children at Henry Horner projects.

10. Who is the one person with whom Pharoah is comfortable?
(a) his mother LaJoe
(b) the triplets
(c) his cousin Porkchop
(d) his brother Lafeyette

11. What is Dawn, Porkchop's sister, about to do?
(a) drop out of school
(b) graduate from Crane High School
(c) get married
(d) have another baby

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

13. Where does Pharoah go with Lafeyette and Rickey and some other friends?
(a) the the top of Horner Homes
(b) to the museum of modern art
(c) to visit Bird Leg's grave
(d) window shopping at discount stores on Chicago Avenue

14. What happened to LaJoe's older sister?
(a) She got bone cancer and died.
(b) She was murdered.
(c) She became a prostitute.
(d) She got pregnant and ran away.

15. What is keeping Pharoah out of school?
(a) nothing to wear
(b) fear of gang members
(c) a serious case of measels
(d) a teacher's strike that lingers for weeks

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who did LaJoe meet at a dance hall when she was only thirteen, pretending to be sixteen?

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

4. What is the name of the young man who entertains outside of Horner Homes?

5. What is Bird Leg dressed in at his funeral?

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