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

2. Who does Coleman call from the pay phone that he finds in the student union building?
(a) Jeff.
(b) Ernestine.
(c) Lisa.
(d) Faunia.

3. Delphine carries the letter in her purse for months before visiting _______ one afternoon.
(a) Boston.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Detroit.
(d) New York.

4. What is Iris also strongly opinionated about, which attracts Coleman's attention and affection?
(a) Racism.
(b) Religion.
(c) Literature.
(d) Politics.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Delphine was visited by a __________ student who complained that Coleman had called her a derogatory name.

2. Coleman is not moved by his mother's pleas for change, believing _______________.

3. Who does Coleman Silk want to pen his story about the accusations at the school?

4. Coleman thinks the Iris has the wildest _____________ of anyone he has seen.

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

(see the answer key)

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