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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Cedric Gilliam hiding out as Cedric gets ready to attend college?

2. With whom does Cedric usually eat lunch?

3. Where does Barbara grow up?

4. What is the last thing Barbara hands Cedric before she starts to drive back home?

5. What is the amazing thing mentioned by the teacher in SAT-PREP class?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Barbara do when Cedric turned two?

2. Why does Cedric feel like an inferior human being at the summer program?

3. Who is Cedric's benefactor and how do they meet?

4. What are Barbara's early years like?

5. Why is the college prep class the cruelest class offered at Ballou?

6. Why is there an assembly at the beginning of the book?

7. What is Bill Ramsey's dream when he began running the M.I.T. MITES program?

8. Why are there few athletes at Ballou Senior High?

9. Who is Cedric's roommate? What is his background?

10. As mid-terms approach, how is Cedric doing at the M.I.T. summer program?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter 12, Cedric writes a poem about his observations of a junior high math class. Discuss what Cedric means by the phrase in the poem, "Maybe I'll just let the colors run?"

Essay Topic 2

Explain what Larry Wakefield means when he tells Cedric, "If you're going to make it here, Cedric, you'll have to find some distance from yourself and all you've been through."

Essay Topic 3

Compare what it means to use "one's talents to bring 'glory onto God' and what it means to be prideful. Use some of the arguments that Cedric uses in the book.

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