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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5 Disintegration of Funk.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Cole and Birdie learn from an Ebony magazine article?
(a) How to wear turbans.
(b) How to braid their hair.
(c) About forced integration.
(d) Black English.

2. What does Cole's Nana teach her to appreciate when she is three?
(a) Sweetened coffee with cream.
(b) Billie Holiday and the Blues.
(c) African Folk Art.
(d) Nat King Cole's music.

3. Why doesn't Deck want to leave with Sandy?
(a) He wants to stay with Carmen.
(b) He is tired of listening to her political drivel.
(c) He wants to stay and teach at Berkeley.
(d) He does not want to leave the United States.

4. Who is Carmen?
(a) Deck's new girlfriend.
(b) Cole's new teacher.
(c) Birdie's best friend in Boston.
(d) Grandma Logan's maid.

5. Where is Aunt Dot moving to in Chapter 1?
(a) Mexico.
(b) India.
(c) Brazil.
(d) Africa.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Cole entertain a bored Birdie at the restaurant in Chapter 5?

2. What make-up ritual do Sandy and Deck typically have after an argument?

3. What is the name of the book the Lodge family ancestor wrote?

4. Which character does Cole stay with after the dinner in Chapter 5?

5. Why is Deck Lee offended by the interracial couple in Chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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