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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Dream (pages 108-132).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was the author ashamed of his thoughts as he took his four-year-old son to preschool?
(a) He was angry that the teachers were white.
(b) He was afraid for his son's safety among all the strange children.
(c) He was jealous of the advantages he was providing for his son.
(d) He did not want his son in a multicultural classroom.

2. According to the author, what do many of his black contemporaries have in common?
(a) They are unhappy with their lives.
(b) They have never known their fathers.
(c) They are searching for a better future.
(d) They are proud of their heritage.

3. How did the author's father discipline him?
(a) By slapping his face.
(b) By taking his phone.
(c) In time-out.
(d) With a belt.

4. To where did the mother of the author's son travel when she turned 30?
(a) Rome.
(b) Paris.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) Los Angeles.

5. What 1986 event helped solidify the author's view that violence is inevitable?
(a) A teenage boy pulled a gun.
(b) His father was shot.
(c) He fired his first weapon.
(d) His mother iwa mugged.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the Internet affect the author's writing?

2. Coats quotes that sixty percent of all young black men who drop out of high school will:

3. What is PG County?

4. What does the author recall always having, even when times were hard?

5. Whom does the author describe as "the God I never had"?

(see the answer key)

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