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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. What does the author say he liked to do with his father's hands?
(a) Play with the veins.
(b) Read his palm.
(c) Draw pictures on them.
(d) Smack them.

2. What does the author say was his one complaint about his mother?
(a) That she hid how bad things were during his childhood.
(b) That she let his father go.
(c) That she never remarried.
(d) That she had low self-esteem.

3. What "wonderful summer job" did the author take after his first year at Yale?
(a) Lab technician at Wayne State University.
(b) Camp counselor.
(c) Supervisor with a highway crew.
(d) Volunteer at a hospital.

4. What does the author say he felt "constant temptation" to do at his new school?
(a) Get a girlfriend.
(b) Become one of the guys.
(c) Get a bad grade.
(d) Skip class.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of animal did the author decide to focus his brain research on, in "Coming Into My Own"?

2. How does the author say Curtis' grades changed in the last year?

3. In "Changing the Rules," the author says that _____ could get him in the door but _____ and quality of work were the real tests.

4. What did the author's mother buy for him that he rejected, saying they were the "wrong kind"?

5. What holiday does the author recall made being 8-years-old the best year of his childhood?

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