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Barack Obama, Origins

Barack Obama, Origins

Read Origins and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Then “submit” your work.

1. What news was given to Obama by a stranger a few months after his twenty-first birthday?

He had been accepted into Harvard graduate school.

His father had died.

His mother had remarried.

His mother had died.

2. What unusual thing was found in the refrigerator of Obama’s old neighbor upon his death?

laundry

a half-finished autobiography

a cornucopia of drugs

a thousand dollars in small bills

3. Obama knew his father primarily through

the years Obama lived in Kenya with his father.

the things he read in the media.

the vacations they spent together.

the stories his mother and grandparents told him.

4. According to the myth, what personal item belonging to Obama’s father was dropped over the railing by another African student?

a picture in a gold frame of Obama’s mother

Obama’s Phi Beta Kappa key

a pipe, a gift from the elder Obama’s father-in-law

a book called Origins

5. Where did Obama’s parents meet?

at Logan Airport in Boston, Massachusetts

in Nairobi, Kenya, where Obama’s mother was serving in the Peace Corps

in a Russian-language class at the University of Hawaii

in Washington, D.C., during a protest march against the Vietnam War