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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. What is the profession of the woman with whom Coleman Silk is having an affair?
(a) Prostitute.
(b) Secretary.
(c) Librarian.
(d) Cleaning woman.

2. ____________ was also an abstract painter and a poet.
(a) Coleman.
(b) Faunia.
(c) Nathan.
(d) Iris.

3. Who calls up Coleman and forbids him from ever contacting the family again?
(a) His mother.
(b) Walt.
(c) Steena.
(d) Ernestine.

4. Coleman tells the news that he is going to marry a white women to whom?
(a) His mother.
(b) Nathan.
(c) Delphine.
(d) His brother.

5. Doc Chizner tells Coleman not to tell the coach that he is __________ as this might hurt Coleman's chances of the scholarship.
(a) Jewish.
(b) A boxer.
(c) Inexperienced.
(d) Black.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the person asking for Coleman to do poorly in school offer to help his mother?

3. To what college does Mr. Silk want his son, Coleman, to go when he is able to go to college?

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

5. Coleman Silk was a professor of _________ and Latin at the college.

(see the answer key)

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