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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Chapters 13 - 16).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the principal of the Governor's School when Ryan auditions in Chapter 10?
(a) Fred Green, his father's cousin.
(b) Robert James, his mother's old friend.
(c) Yvette Wyatt, his godmother.
(d) Leon Hughes, his old teacher Mrs. Hughes's husband.

2. Why does Ryan stop seeing the red-headed girl he meets in the beginning of Chapter 11?
(a) She cheats on him.
(b) He can not afford the gas to go back and forth to her house.
(c) Her grandparents forbid her to see Ryan because Ryan is black.
(d) She moves away for college.

3. What is one thing that agitates Ryan very badly when he is at the juvenile detention center?
(a) The food is terrible.
(b) He is very homesick.
(c) The sheets are too itchy.
(d) A female child there follows Ryan around.

4. What is the unique word Ryan's voice teacher uses to help him during his training?
(a) Spacement.
(b) Poisement.
(c) Place-inating.
(d) Place-resonating.

5. Which group barred Marian Anderson from singing at Constitution Hall in Washington DC in 1939?
(a) Unite the Right.
(b) The KKK.
(c) The Daughters of the American Revolution.
(d) The Girls Scouts of America.

Short Answer Questions

1. What famous legend did the story in Wanger's Parsifal draw on?

2. How did Cecil get his middle name of Speedo?

3. Why does Ryan run after the young man who uses a racial slur to describe Obama?

4. Which of the following laws did DeJarnette advocate for the passage of?

5. Which opera does Ryan see on his first visit to the Met as a high school student?

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