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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the dead boy's mother decide to do after the trial in the chapter "The Dream"?
(a) Plead her son's case before the journalists and writers.
(b) Attack the judge in court.
(c) Leave the country.
(d) Shoot the man who murdered her son.

2. What does the author recall always having, even when times were hard?
(a) Money.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Family and friends.
(d) Power.

3. Why does the author apologize to his son?
(a) For not providing him with a better education.
(b) For speaking so negatively about the world.
(c) For rambling on about the past.
(d) For being unable to save him from the reality of racism and violence in the world.

4. Why was the author ashamed of his thoughts as he took his four-year-old son to preschool?
(a) He was afraid for his son's safety among all the strange children.
(b) He was jealous of the advantages he was providing for his son.
(c) He was angry that the teachers were white.
(d) He did not want his son in a multicultural classroom.

5. To where did the mother of the author's son travel when she turned 30?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) Paris.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) Rome.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose last worlds were "This stops today!"

2. How old was the author's son when Coats first took him along on an interview?

3. According to the author, this son has been cast into "a race in which the wind is always at your face and _____" what?

4. How does the author describe Prince Jones?

5. According to the author, "In America, it is traditional to destroy the _____" what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What role has fear played in Samori's (the author's son) life?

2. What lesson does the mother of the boy on page 112 (Lucia McBath) try to impart to the author's son?

3. Why did the thought of encountering the Prince George's County patrol officer frighten the author?

4. How does the death of the boy on page 112 (Jordan Davis) reinforce the author's theory that the "Dream" is dangerous?

5. What reasons does the author give for the woman feeling validated in pushing his son off the escalator?

6. What is the significance of the author's description of the slave burial plot in southern Manhattan?

7. Why are black children told to be "twice as good"?

8. What reasons does the author give for the anger of the man who was having his home repossessed?

9. Why is the author's fear of his son seeing him arrested greater than his fear of being arrested?

10. What in the significance of the author's vision of Prince Jones in the museum?

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