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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Goodbye to Yesterday.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who comes to speak to the students at the assembly in the first chapter?
(a) Mayor Marion Barry.
(b) Mayor Rudy Giuliani
(c) Mayor Matthew Barron.
(d) Mayor David Andrews.

2. Who is the leader of these fifteen hundred men?
(a) Jesse Jackson.
(b) Malcolm X.
(c) Clarence Thomas.
(d) Louis Farrakhan.

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

4. What type of college does Cedric wish to attend?
(a) A college that caters to kids from the ghetto.
(b) A college in California.
(c) Ivy League.
(d) An all black college.

5. What do Cedric and his mother sing as they drive into Providence?
(a) "Old Rugged Cross."
(b) "It is Well with my Soul."
(c) "Amazing Grace."
(d) "Shelter from the Storm."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do Rob's parents do for a living?

3. How does Bishop Long end the church service on Cedric's last Sunday?

4. Why will a woman from church be honored with a queen-for-a-day ceremony?

5. Why does Cedric go to the PTSA meeting?

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