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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12: Coming Into My Own.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How often did the author wear an ROTC uniform at school?
(a) Every day.
(b) Three days a week.
(c) Two days a week.
(d) Every Friday.

2. During what years was the author a resident at Johns Hopkins?
(a) 1983-1988.
(b) 1985-1999.
(c) 1978-1982.
(d) 1974-1977.

3. What was the author's mother determined to accomplish in Detroit?
(a) To reclaim the house the family once lived in.
(b) To get back together with her ex-husband.
(c) To go to night school.
(d) To enroll her sons in private school.

4. What did the author consider his biggest problem in tenth grade?
(a) Clothes.
(b) Thinking about college.
(c) Dating.
(d) Choosing a career.

5. What impression did the author have that his grades reinforced?
(a) That his teacher did not like him.
(b) That he was meant to be at a private school.
(c) That Black kids are not as smart as White kids.
(d) That the schools in Detroit were not as good as the ones in Boston.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of work did the author's mother find in Boston?

2. What instrument did the author play in ninth grade?

3. Who was Alma Whittley?

4. When does the author say he worked at Wayne State University in one of the biology laboratories?

5. In "A Boy's Big Problem," what does the author say his mother needed in order to provide for the family and keep up the house?

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