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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Cedric's summer job before college?
(a) He does not have a summer job
(b) An internship at Price Waterhouse Accounting.
(c) Working at McDonalds.
(d) Cleaning the high school.

2. Why are most of the classes that Cedric takes at Ballou not very challenging?
(a) The students are so rowdy, the teachers cannot teach.
(b) Passing grades are awarded simply for coming to class.
(c) The school board will not purchase new textbooks.
(d) The teachers are not well versed in their subjects.

3. What impresses Barbara about Cedric Gilliam?
(a) He works hard.
(b) He has never been in prison.
(c) He dresses nicely.
(d) He has a bachelor's degree.

4. How does a Caucasian student get into the M.I.T. summer program?
(a) His grandmother is black.
(b) His great-grandfather is black.
(c) His grandfather is Asian.
(d) He is 1/128 Potawatomi Indian.

5. Why does Cedric avoid Delante "Head" Coleman?
(a) He knifed Cedric once.
(b) He always tries to sell drugs to Cedric.
(c) He once put a gun to Cedric's head.
(d) He and his crew enjoy bothering honor students.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Cedric's SAT scores compare to the other students at M.I.T.?

2. What does Cedric find waiting at home after a long night at church?

3. What does Cedric do for his eighteenth birthday?

4. Who is the leader of these fifteen hundred men?

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

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