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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Slipping the Punch.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is the woman that Coleman Silk is seeing after his wife's death?
(a) 24.
(b) 18.
(c) 34.
(d) 22.

2. Who does Coleman feel he can be himself around when he is dating her?
(a) Iris.
(b) Ellie.
(c) Faunia.
(d) Steena.

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

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

5. Coleman and Iris married more out of convenience and companionship than out of _________.
(a) Desire.
(b) Necessity.
(c) Legality.
(d) Passion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Coleman Silk receive that tells him that others know about his affair with a younger woman?

2. ____________ was also an abstract painter and a poet.

3. What is the phrase that Coleman uses with the lawyer which confuses the lawyer?

4. Coleman realizes that if he had taken the more _________ Steena to his house, things might have gone better.

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

(see the answer key)

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