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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14: A Girl Named Maranda.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of Candy's three college majors does the author say she eventually dropped?
(a) English.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Premed.
(d) Music.

2. Who told the author he should "dress the way you want to be"?
(a) His teacher.
(b) Curtis.
(c) His mother.
(d) His father.

3. How does the author say Curtis' grades changed in the last year?
(a) They were mostly failing grades.
(b) They had gone from good to great.
(c) They had been climbing.
(d) They changed very little.

4. What was the author offered, after he had dinner with Congressional Medal winners?
(a) A limo ride with General Westmoreland.
(b) A scholarship to West Point.
(c) A book about Vietnam.
(d) A trip to the White House.

5. What method in "Two Positives" does the author say his family used to protect each other?
(a) Revenge.
(b) Silence.
(c) Love.
(d) Defensiveness.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Alma Whittley help the author?

2. At 13, the author changed his goal of becoming a general practitioner to a what?

3. The author says he was hooked the first few times he looked down upon what?

4. Why did the chief of surgery at Provident Hospital suggest the author did not want to stay at Johns Hopkins?

5. What happened halfway through the author's fifth grade year?

(see the answer key)

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