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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Lafeyette develop a terrible cough?
(a) He stays out all night in the winter.
(b) He catches it from Rickey.
(c) Because the policeman threw him in a puddle.
(d) The open windows let in a cold winter draft.

3. How does LaJoe see to it that the children have a good Christmas?
(a) by borrowing money from her mother
(b) by using her benefit money
(c) by playing cards to win money at night
(d) by putting gifts on layaway for months

4. Where do Lafeyette and Pharoah get accepted?
(a) as members of the Boy Scouts
(b) in a private parochial school named Providence-St. Mel
(c) into the Zion Baptist church choir
(d) in a University of Illinois pilot program

5. What does LaJoe buy for them to eat downtown?
(a) caramel apples on a stick
(b) some pink cotton candy
(c) hotdogs and French fries
(d) two big bags of caramel and cheese popcorn

Short Answer Questions

1. What are some of the problems at the Chicago Housing Authority?

2. Who owns the luxury home with a marble staircase, sunken tub and Jacuzzi?

3. What is making Lafeyette nervous?

4. Where does Lafeyette get Pahroah to agree to go?

5. What bad dream does Pharoah have after the sentencing of his older brother?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does LaJoe's mother move out and how do the boys feel about her moving?

2. What does Rickey do that displeases LaJoe?

3. Describe Lafeyette's brush with the law that gets him arrested.

4. How does Pharoah prepare for the next spelling bee?

5. What are the projects like in the winter?

6. What does Gwen Anderson tell the CHA about the basement?

7. How does LaJoe remember the day Terrence was sentenced since Terrence had requested that she not come to court that day?

8. Describe what Pharoah sees as the boys are eating their food outside the Main Street hot dog stand.

9. Why is Lafeyette put in charge of the children and what is his behavior like?

10. How does the judge make LaJoe feel after Lafeyette's hearing?

(see the answer keys)

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