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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, What Maniac Conceived It?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the person asking for Coleman to do poorly in school offer to help his mother?
(a) A new car.
(b) A new kitchen.
(c) A paid off mortgage.
(d) A charge nurse position.

2. Nathan senses that it is the ____________ in the person Coleman is with that causes their attraction.
(a) Missing thing.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Darkness.
(d) Youth.

3. What does Nathan offer to Coleman when he purposely runs into him at the symphony's open rehearsal?
(a) To write his book.
(b) Forgiveness.
(c) Money.
(d) Lunch.

4. Delphine once had a relationship with a _________ man, but that went wrong so she does not want that again.
(a) Rich.
(b) White.
(c) Black.
(d) Married.

5. What does Delphine tell the Campus Police about her ransacked office?
(a) That it was all her fault.
(b) That Faunia did it.
(c) That Coleman broke in.
(d) That kids did it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Coleman watches a group of people who are likely members of the _________ classes and he thinks he should be one of them.

2. What does Delphine do with the first letter she writes to Coleman about his relationship with Faunia?

3. What is Faunia thinking about rather than of her tragedies and of her past?

4. In what animal does Faunia seem to take a particular interest?

5. Who does Coleman blame for throwing out all his parent's belongings when he was overseas (at least in the story he tells his children)?

(see the answer key)

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