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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does LaJoe pin on her sweatshirt and wear for the rest of the day?
(a) Pharoah's and the triplets' school ribbons
(b) school pictures of her youngest children
(c) flowers given her by Pharoah
(d) a medal Pharoah won in an essay contest

2. What does Craig do when he sees some police officers?
(a) panics and runs
(b) pulls out a gun
(c) holds up his hands
(d) falls to the ground

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

4. What does Rickey call his new gang?
(a) the Avengers
(b) the Four Corner Hustlers
(c) the Horner Hornets
(d) the Railroad Snakes

5. What is happening outside when Lafeyette doesn't move off the couch and continues to calmly watch television?
(a) a police raid
(b) a fire
(c) a hail storm
(d) gunshots

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

7. Who threatens to bash LaJoe's head in because she ignores his flirtations?
(a) the man who collects the rent
(b) a policeman
(c) Pharoah's new male teacher
(d) Keith, a man in his late forties

8. Why is Lafeyette arrested?
(a) allegedly breaking and entering houses
(b) allegedly snatching a woman's purse
(c) allegedly breaking into a truck near the stadium
(d) allegedly selling drugs

9. Who do they meet on the way and invite to join them?
(a) Craig
(b) Vince
(c) Porkchop
(d) Rickey

10. After placing second behind Clarise, what really makes Pharoah happy?
(a) Lafeyette buys him an ice cream cone.
(b) He did not stutter during the contest.
(c) He has a blue ribbon to take home.
(d) LaJoe was there to see him.

11. A week after Craig's funeral, what weather condition takes place?
(a) a late snow
(b) a heatwave
(c) a tornado
(d) a hail storm

12. What does Lafeyette think about LaShawn?
(a) He suspects she is working with the police.
(b) He thinks she is pregnant again.
(c) He thinks she has cancer.
(d) He suspects she is taking drugs again.

13. What is LaJoe able at last to make?
(a) a chocolate cake
(b) the last payment on used bunk beds for the children
(c) macrame wall decorations
(d) a party for Dawn

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

15. When did Lafeyette start imagining about having a dog of his own?
(a) when tough Luck came with a gun
(b) after Craig was killed
(c) hanging around with Bird Leg
(d) when a gang jumped him outside

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes one boy in Rickey's gang to get shot accidentally in the arm?

2. Under what condition will the truck owner drop the charges against the five boys?

3. What is Lafeyette beginning to look like at the age of thriteen?

4. Why doesn't LaJoe take Lafeyette downtown to see the holiday window decorations?

5. How is Craig killed?

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