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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Skin Deep.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Cedric do at church one day when singing in the choir?
(a) Made fun of the choir director.
(b) Stepped up to sing a solo.
(c) Forgot his choir robe.
(d) Forgot to spit out his gum.

2. In the first chapter, what happens as Cedric waits at the bus stop?
(a) A boy is knifed.
(b) A student is arrested for dealing drugs.
(c) A boy grabs another boy and puts a pistol to his head.
(d) Cedric is pushed down and his books torn.

3. Why are there very few athletes at Ballou?
(a) The 2.0 required grade point average is too high for most students.
(b) The 2.75 required grade point average is too high for most students.
(c) Most students do not want to work that hard.
(d) Most of the students are on drugs.

4. How many white students attend Ballou?
(a) None.
(b) 25.
(c) 100.
(d) 563.

5. Why does Cedric's mother refuse to buy him a pair of extra-baggy khaki-colored pants?
(a) They remind her of Cedric's father.
(b) She thinks he should buy a pair of black pants.
(c) She says that the pants symbolize bad things.
(d) She does not have the money.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Cedric's father beat him?

2. What advanced level class is Cedric taking at M.I.T.?

3. What does Cedric Gillian tell Barbara when she is pregnant?

4. What do the other students do after Cedric's talk with Trilling?

5. Where does Cedric hide during the assembly?

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