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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12: Coming Into My Own.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the author receive for making the fifth-hour class the best unit in the school?
(a) He was promoted to second lieutenant.
(b) He received a certificate.
(c) He was given permission to leave school early.
(d) He received a trophy.

2. In "Changing the Rules," what common interest did the author share with attorney Ward Randall, Jr.?
(a) Science.
(b) Law.
(c) Classical music.
(d) Bowling.

3. When does the author say he worked at Wayne State University in one of the biology laboratories?
(a) During spring break of his sophomore year at Yale.
(b) The year after he graduated from college.
(c) The summer after his freshman year at Yale.
(d) The summer between his junior and senior year of high school.

4. In "Coming Into My Own," whose voice did the author hear when he encountered prejudice?
(a) His mother's.
(b) Dr. Long's.
(c) His father's.
(d) Martin Luther King Jr.'s.

5. In "Eight Years Old," what made the author feel worse than being at the bottom of his class at Higgins Elementary School?
(a) The principal who wrongfully accused him of cheating.
(b) The teasing and taunting from other kids.
(c) The teacher who belittled him.
(d) The judgment from his mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the author begin to do, in tenth grade, instead of coming home after school?

2. In what year did the author's family move back to Detroit?

3. What object of the author's did a ninth grader in "A Boy's Big Problem" say had been through four world wars?

4. What did "The Top One Hundred" program help the author learn?

5. Who introduced the author to Schubert's Eighth Symphony (Unfinished)?

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