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

2. What did Valerie find when she came home hastily from Korea?
(a) Ryan and Adrian were very ill.
(b) Cecil was living with another woman and that woman's son in her apartment.
(c) Valerie's father needed to find a new job.
(d) Valerie's mother was dying.

3. Why does Valerie leave her post in Korea to come quickly back to the USA?
(a) She was very sick.
(b) Cecil had sent her divorce papers.
(c) Ryan called her and asked her to come home.
(d) Her mother died.

4. Two days before Ryan is scheduled to be released from the detention center, what does he do to another child?
(a) Spits in his face.
(b) Breaks his finger.
(c) Pours milk down his back.
(d) Beats him badly.

5. What store does Camille LaBarre take Ryan to to get clothes for the Met competition's final audition?
(a) Bloomingdales.
(b) Talbot's.
(c) Men's Wearhouse.
(d) Brooks Brothers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sport do both Ryan and Adrian play in high school?

2. Who runs the Met's Lindemann training program?

3. Who is the woman Ryan calls a "white Hawaiian bitch" at the juvenile detention center?

4. What was the name of the detention facility where Ryan was taken in Chapter 6?

5. Who is the Italian coach Ryan works with in Chapter 7?

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