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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. Where does Coleman Silk's new young girlfriend live, according to Coleman's description?
(a) In the city.
(b) At a halfway home.
(c) With her mentor.
(d) A dairy farm.

2. What did Coleman suffer quite often when he was young because of his name and to what it could refer?
(a) Bullying.
(b) Racism.
(c) Mistaken identity.
(d) Paternalism.

3. 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 has a new identity.
(c) She is an alcoholic.
(d) She is illiterate.

4. What is the phrase that Coleman uses with the lawyer which confuses the lawyer?
(a) Spook.
(b) Dark soul.
(c) Blackie.
(d) Lily-white face.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the two children that Faunia left with when they left the abusive husband and father?

2. Who is the young woman from the Midwest that Coleman meets when he is in school?

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

4. Despite a broken __________ and a tattoo from his experience, Coleman survived.

5. How does Coleman Silk enlist when he signs up for the military branch he does?

(see the answer key)

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