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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the families of the boys refuse to pay damages for the truck?
(a) They know the boys are innocent.
(b) They can't afford it.
(c) They don't like the truck owner.
(d) They don't understand the offer.

2. What is it called when a hospital sends a patient to another hospital?
(a) ambulance running
(b) patient dumping
(c) reference managing
(d) outpatient care

3. What is the subject of the poem Craig had written that haunts Lafeyette?
(a) about long life
(b) about life and death
(c) about good citizenship
(d) about angels

4. What is clear about the judge in Lafeyette's hearing at Juvenile Detention?
(a) He is kind and understanding.
(b) He doesn't believe Lafeyette's version of events.
(c) He is prejudiced against black juveniles.
(d) He is tired and wants to go home.

5. What does Pharoah put on and spend thirty minutes grooming himself before the party?
(a) a new blue suit
(b) a green shorts set
(c) a white jogging suit
(d) a new Blackhawks jacket

6. What is making Lafeyette nervous?
(a) Pharoah's illness
(b) his parole officer
(c) an upcoming court date
(d) pressure on him to join Rickey's gang

7. What are some of the problems at the Chicago Housing Authority?
(a) bureaucratic red tape
(b) racial prejudice and police brutality
(c) terrible reputation and mismanagement issues
(d) lack of finitiative and no organization

8. What has Terrence accomplished in prison?
(a) learned to read and write
(b) earned a high school equivalency
(c) become a professional wrestler
(d) learned a new trade

9. What is different about Terrence's appearance at the trial?
(a) His heair is all shaved off.
(b) He looked older and scared.
(c) He had been lifting weights and is now very muscular.
(d) His hair had started turning gray.

10. How is Craig killed?
(a) a gunshot to the head
(b) a gangland execution
(c) an automobile crash
(d) run over by a train

11. What was the result of Lafeyette's fall down some stairs?
(a) a concussion
(b) a torn ligament
(c) a broken arm
(d) a fractured ankle

12. How does Lafeyette dress for Craig's funeral?
(a) in a deejay outfit
(b) in new jeans and a sweater
(c) in his only clean clothes
(d) in one of Terrence's suits

13. What does Pharoah warn his friends about in the basement?
(a) human-headed cats
(b) vampire bats
(c) evil spirits
(d) poisonous snakes

14. What does Pharoah see that makes him stutter again?
(a) a murder
(b) an elephant
(c) a rainbow
(d) a police car

15. Who makes up Rickey's gang?
(a) drug runners
(b) boys all older than he is
(c) mostly girls in the projects
(d) boys only thirteen- or fourteen-years-old

Short Answer Questions

1. What does LaJoe buy for them to eat downtown?

2. What is it that Vince Lane does not know until the Horner residents inform him?

3. What destroyed Paul's relationship with LaJoe and now with his children?

4. What does the teacher, Mr. Rogers, promise the class if either Clarise or Pharoah wins the spelling bee?

5. What position had LaJoe's mother held when LaJoe was a child?

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