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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 ended up bringing Iris and Coleman closer together during their marriage?
(a) Her disease.
(b) His affair.
(c) Nathan.
(d) The investigation.

2. What did Coleman recognize in the words as he was trying to write his story without any help?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Anger.
(c) Innocence.
(d) Freedom.

3. What does Ellie point out to Coleman when he reveals his racial heritage with her?
(a) She doesn't care.
(b) The other black men she knows who are passing.
(c) She already knew.
(d) She is black.

4. What did the person asking for Coleman to do poorly in school offer to help his mother?
(a) A new car.
(b) A new kitchen.
(c) A paid off mortgage.
(d) A charge nurse position.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many days does Coleman wait before seeing Faunia after the incident with her husband stalking her?

2. What does Iris seem to believe about Coleman's heritage, just as so many others in his life have assumed?

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

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

5. One Saturday, Nathan comes over to find Coleman in his ________ and nothing else.

(see the answer key)

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