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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, What Do You Do with the Kid Who Can't Read?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Faunia have to do at her home in order to live without paying rent?
(a) Clean the bathrooms.
(b) Milk the cows.
(c) Read one book.
(d) Submit to drug tests.

2. What does Coleman find out about Faunia that she admits to, but does not want to do anything about?
(a) She is a drug addict.
(b) She is illiterate.
(c) She is an alcoholic.
(d) She has a new identity.

3. Who is the young woman from the Midwest that Coleman meets when he is in school?
(a) Julie.
(b) Steena.
(c) Ellie.
(d) Iris.

4. The girl who was a __________ had been in the reading recovery program twice the time she should have been.
(a) Autistic student.
(b) Welfare kid.
(c) Abuse victim.
(d) Flirt.

5. What does Delphine obtain once she begins to hear rumors of Coleman's relationship with Faunia?
(a) Coleman's employment records.
(b) A search warrant.
(c) Coleman's phone records.
(d) Faunia's employment records.

Short Answer Questions

1. Doc Chizner tells Coleman not to tell the coach that he is __________ as this might hurt Coleman's chances of the scholarship.

2. 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)?

3. What does Ellie point out to Coleman when he reveals his racial heritage with her?

4. What did Coleman Silk do first as a boy when he went to Newark Boys Club in his neighborhood?

5. One Saturday, Nathan comes over to find Coleman in his ________ and nothing else.

(see the answer key)

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