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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 is the newly appointed housing manager of Horner Homes?
(a) Mr. Rogers
(b) Gwen Anderson
(c) LaJoe Rivers
(d) John Daly

2. When are the projects stifling hot?
(a) in the winter
(b) in the summer
(c) at midnight
(d) at night

3. A year later, what does Craig Davis' mother decide to do?
(a) give her sons recordings to Lafeyette
(b) to file a lawsuit against the ATF
(c) move to Alabama
(d) buy a gravestone for her son

4. What is Pharoah's latest interest?
(a) politics
(b) writing
(c) medicine
(d) girls

5. Why does Lafeyette want to fight his father?
(a) He catches his father stealing LaJoe's savings.
(b) He sees his father strike LaJoe.
(c) He thinks his father sold his puppy for drugs.
(d) He wants his father to teach him how to win a fight.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Pharoah worried that even if he achieves a high school diploma, he will not be able to get out of the projects?

2. What are they all talking abut when Pharoah runs home to tell about his win?

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

4. What is the subject of the poem Craig had written that haunts Lafeyette?

5. What is LaJoe able at last to make?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Vince Lane and what does he hope to accomplish?

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

3. What is the special fear of Pharoah?

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

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

6. Why does Pharoah stay up all night on December 30th?

7. What is the unfortunate coincidence involving Craig Davis and the police?

8. How does Pharoah react to his visit to the courtroom?

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

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

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