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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Let the Colors Run.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Cedric find waiting at home after a long night at church?
(a) His two sisters.
(b) A check to buy books.
(c) His father.
(d) Acceptance to the M.I.T. summer program.

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

5. Who besides Cedric attends Alumni Day?
(a) One or two students and a few teachers.
(b) A few teachers.
(c) Most of the previous year's seniors and all the teachers.
(d) Ten or so seniors, half a dozen graduates, and about twenty teachers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which student at M.I.T. does Cedric ask to help him?

2. Who is the girl in Cedric's Richard Wright study group?

3. Where do Zayd and Cedric often go when they get off College Hill?

4. How many white students attend Ballou?

5. After Cedric finishes his Alumni Day speech, what does he see on a step?

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