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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, The Purifying Ritual.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who works with the reading recovery children, according to Coleman's memories?
(a) Lisa.
(b) Faunia.
(c) Steena.
(d) Ellie.

2. Who is the vet who is determined to help Les when he gets out of the VA hospital?
(a) Thomas.
(b) Joe.
(c) Jeff.
(d) Louie.

3. Who does Coleman stop spending time with after July, though the other person does not know why?
(a) Delphine.
(b) Nathan.
(c) John.
(d) Faunia.

4. Who began molesting Faunia after her mother got remarried?
(a) Lester.
(b) Her stepfather.
(c) Nathan.
(d) Coleman.

5. Coleman's father believed that education was the more important thing in life, especially for a __________.
(a) Poor man.
(b) Boy.
(c) Dyslexic child.
(d) Black man.

Short Answer Questions

1. Coleman encourages Faunia to ______________ to the same song that Steena once did.

2. What does Nathan think he needs to do once he finishes the book about Coleman?

3. Coleman is __________, one of the first professors on the school's staff to be so.

4. What does Lester put close to Nathan's face as they are talking, a sort of veiled threat?

5. When Delphine writes the second letter to Coleman, how does she sign it?

(see the answer key)

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