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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16: Little Beth.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the author change schools in the middle of eighth grade?
(a) He moved back to his old house.
(b) He moved back to Boston.
(c) He transferred to a school for gifted children.
(d) He got expelled from his old school.

2. Why did the chief of surgery at Provident Hospital suggest the author did not want to stay at Johns Hopkins?
(a) He said the salary was too poor.
(b) He said the institution was steeped in racism.
(c) He said the patients were prejudiced.
(d) He said there was too much drama.

3. What other role did the author's father serve in, that he recalls observing only once?
(a) His father volunteered as a crossing guard.
(b) His father played trumpet in a jazz band.
(c) His father was a member of the school board.
(d) His father was a Baptist minister.

4. What was the reason the author and his classmates were given for having to retake a test for the psychology class, Perceptions 101?
(a) The tests were lost.
(b) The tests were inadvertently burned.
(c) No one passed the first test.
(d) There was too much talking during the first test.

5. In "ROTC Triumph," why does the author say he looked forward to Sunday nights?
(a) To watch a quiz show on television.
(b) To put in long hours at the science lab.
(c) To visit the Detroit Institute of Arts.
(d) To study for the SAT.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mother tell the author his father had done?

2. In "College Choices," why did the author only apply to one college?

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

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

5. What significant sign of recovery did Maranda show after her hemispherectomy?

(see the answer key)

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