The A-dependence of the quasielastic A(e, e ′ p) reaction has been studied at SLAC with 2 H, C, Fe, and Au nuclei at momentum transfers Q 2 = 1, 3, 5, and 6.8 (GeV/c) 2 . We extract the nuclear transparency T (A, Q 2 ), a measure of the average probability that the struck proton escapes from the nucleus A without interaction. Several calculations predict a significant increase in T with momentum transfer, a phenomenon known as Color Transparency. No significant rise within errors is seen for any of the nuclei studied.PACS numbers: 25.30 In 1982, Mueller and Brodsky [1] proposed that in wide angle exclusive processes, the soft initial and final state interactions (ISI and FSI) of hadrons in nuclei would vanish at high energies. This effect, originally based on arguments using perturbative QCD, is called "Color Transparency" (CT), in reference to the disappearance of the color forces between the hadrons and nuclei. Evidence for the CT effect can be sought by measurement of the nuclear transparency T , defined as the ratio of the measured cross section to the cross section expected in the limit of complete CT (i.e., no ISI or FSI), as a function of the 4-momentum transfer squared, Q 2 , and nuclear mass, A. For CT to be observable in quasielastic A(e, e ′ p) scattering, the recoiling proton must maintain its reduced interaction with other nucleons over a distance comparable to the nuclear radius. This is probed directly by measuring the A dependence of T . At low energies, T < 1 because of absorption or deflection of the hadrons by ISI and FSI with the nucleus. As the energy increases, and if CT effects begin to dominate the scattering, T should increase towards unity [2]. Some recent models of CT predict significant increases in T for Q 2 as low as 5 (GeV/c) 2 [2-6]. We present measurements of T for the reaction A(e, e ′ p) on 2 H, C, Fe, and Au nuclei at Q 2 = 1, 3, 5, and 6.8 (GeV/c) 2 .The first experiment to investigate CT was performed by Carroll et al. [7] using simultaneous measurements of A(p, 2p) and H(p, 2p) reaction rates at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Their results showed T increasing for Q 2 ≃ 3-8 (GeV/c) 2 , but then decreasing for Q 2 ≃ 8-11 (GeV/c) 2 . Because of the subsequent decrease, the rise at lower momentum transfer cannot be taken as an unambiguous signal of CT. Ralston and Pire [6] suggest that the maximum in T is due to a soft process that interferes with the perturbative QCD amplitude in free proton-proton scattering but is suppressed in the nuclear environment. Such ambiguities should be smaller in A(e, e ′ p) reactions because of the simplicity of the elementary electron-proton interaction compared to the proton-proton interaction.