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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Iris also strongly opinionated about, which attracts Coleman's attention and affection?
(a) Literature.
(b) Racism.
(c) Politics.
(d) Religion.

2. ____________ was also an abstract painter and a poet.
(a) Nathan.
(b) Faunia.
(c) Iris.
(d) Coleman.

3. What does Coleman sign on to buy from the farm in order to see Faunia every week?
(a) Milk.
(b) Beef.
(c) Corn.
(d) Wheat.

4. What did Coleman recognize in the words as he was trying to write his story without any help?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Anger.
(d) Innocence.

5. Coleman is __________, one of the first professors on the school's staff to be so.
(a) Jewish.
(b) White.
(c) Black.
(d) German.

6. Who sent the letter to Coleman that reflected on how good he looked and how mature he seemed?
(a) Faunia.
(b) Steena.
(c) Nathan.
(d) Delphine.

7. What does Coleman do when he realizes that the woman from the Midwest is someone he wants to be with forever?
(a) Proposes to her.
(b) Breaks up with her.
(c) Tells her he wants to marry her.
(d) Takes her to Sunday dinner.

8. What is the favorite piece of literature of Coleman's father, according to the book?
(a) Julius Caesar.
(b) A Midsummer Night's Dream.
(c) Hamlet.
(d) Othello.

9. What did Coleman Silk do first as a boy when he went to Newark Boys Club in his neighborhood?
(a) Run.
(b) Box.
(c) Play hoops.
(d) Hide and read.

10. To what college does Mr. Silk want his son, Coleman, to go when he is able to go to college?
(a) Yale.
(b) Howard.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Athena.

11. What kind of Jew is Iris' father according to the book's description of her family?
(a) Fervent.
(b) Hasidic.
(c) Non-practicing.
(d) Orthodox.

12. What does Coleman tell Iris of his family and their history?
(a) He reveals their racial background.
(b) He says they have disowned him.
(c) He says he is an orphan.
(d) He says they want him to marry a Jewish girl.

13. Coleman is a __________ skinned Jew, according to his own description.
(a) Yellow.
(b) White.
(c) Brown.
(d) Black.

14. How does Coleman Silk enlist when he signs up for the military branch he does?
(a) As a white man.
(b) As a mixed race man.
(c) As a gay man.
(d) As a black man.

15. Coleman and Iris married more out of convenience and companionship than out of _________.
(a) Legality.
(b) Passion.
(c) Desire.
(d) Necessity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Iris' father never married her mother because he is highly distrustful of ____________.

2. How old is the woman that Coleman Silk is seeing after his wife's death?

3. Who is Coleman with when he runs into Steena six years after their first love affair?

4. What did the person asking for Coleman to do poorly in school offer to help his mother?

5. What did Coleman suffer quite often when he was young because of his name and to what it could refer?

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