Well, if you read on to Chapter 2, exercise 6.3, then it is stated that:
$$Cl(A) cong Cl(X)/mathbb Z[H]$$
here $[H]$ represents the hyperplane section. So the answer is yes.
There is a less well-known but very nice generalization. Suppose that $X$ is smooth. Let $R=A_m$ be the local ring of A at the irrelevant ideal. Then one has a (graded) isomorphism of $mathbb Q$- vector spaces:
$$CH(X)_{mathbb Q}/[H]CH(X)_{mathbb Q} cong A_*(R)_{mathbb Q}$$
Here $CH(X)$ is the Chow ring of $X$ and $A_*(R)$ is the total Chow group of $R$. Details can be found in this paper by Kurano.
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