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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. Doc Chizner takes Coleman to a fight he is refereeing in ___________ in order to get Coleman to fight for another college.
(a) Memphis.
(b) Providence.
(c) West Point.
(d) Boston.

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

3. What caused Coleman Silk's wife to die during the investigation into the comments he made during a class?
(a) Broken heart.
(b) Stroke.
(c) Heart attack.
(d) Cancer.

4. Iris' father never married her mother because he is highly distrustful of ____________.
(a) The government.
(b) Iris' mother.
(c) Papers you have to sign.
(d) Marriage.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of Coleman's children never believed the story about his dead parents, even though the other children did?

3. Coleman tells the news that he is going to marry a white women to whom?

4. What does Coleman suffer for the first time upon his arrival at Howard College?

5. What else did the person asking Coleman to do poorly in school say they would set up for Coleman?

(see the answer key)

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