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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Cedric decide to apply to college?

2. What is the last thing Barbara hands Cedric before she starts to drive back home?

3. What worries Barbara at the beginning of Chapter 2?

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

5. Why does Cedric give a speech at graduation?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Cedric arrive at school by 6:30 a.m. most mornings?

2. After eight months, why does Cedric Gilliam lose his work release job?

3. What preparations has Barbara made for the trip to take Cedric to Brown?

4. As mid-terms approach, how is Cedric doing at the M.I.T. summer program?

5. Why is the college prep class the cruelest class offered at Ballou?

6. Why does Cedric feel like an inferior human being at the summer program?

7. Who is James Davis?

8. Why is there an assembly at the beginning of the book?

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

10. Who is Cedric's benefactor and how do they meet?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain what Larry Wakefield means when he tells Cedric, "If you're going to make it here, Cedric, you'll have to find some distance from yourself and all you've been through."

Essay Topic 2

Discuss why Cedric's self-confidence begins to wane after he has been on the Brown campus a few days.

Essay Topic 3

Compare what it means to use "one's talents to bring 'glory onto God' and what it means to be prideful. Use some of the arguments that Cedric uses in the book.

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