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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Pretender.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who runs the M.I.T. program?
(a) Brian Rowling.
(b) Leon Trilling.
(c) Bill Ramsey.
(d) Bob Roudabush.

2. When does Cedric first meet his father?
(a) When he was seven.
(b) When he was two.
(c) When he was in high school.
(d) When he was in junior high.

3. Where does Cedric's mother work?
(a) Department of Agriculture.
(b) Ballou High School.
(c) Supreme Court.
(d) Department of Justice.

4. What work release job does Cedric Gillian have?
(a) Washing dishes at a restaurant.
(b) Cutting hair at a barbershop.
(c) Working as an accountant in a bank.
(d) Working at a meat packing plant.

5. What worries Barbara at the beginning of Chapter 2?
(a) The rent is due.
(b) A problem at work.
(c) The neighborhood she lives in.
(d) Cedric's grades.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Phillip Atkins working?

2. How does a Caucasian student get into the M.I.T. summer program?

3. Who takes Cedric's calculator in math class?

4. For what summer program does Cedric apply?

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

(see the answer key)

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