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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many days does Coleman wait before seeing Faunia after the incident with her husband stalking her?
(a) Eight.
(b) Thirteen.
(c) Ten.
(d) Five.

3. What is the profession of the man who taught boxing at the Boys Club?
(a) Doctor.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Dentist.

4. Who is Coleman with when he runs into Steena six years after their first love affair?
(a) Amanda.
(b) Ellie.
(c) No one.
(d) Iris.

5. What does Iris seem to believe about Coleman's heritage, just as so many others in his life have assumed?
(a) He is hiding something.
(b) He is Jewish.
(c) He is a WASP.
(d) He is black.

6. Coleman is __________, one of the first professors on the school's staff to be so.
(a) Jewish.
(b) White.
(c) German.
(d) Black.

7. 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) Inexperienced.
(c) A boxer.
(d) Black.

8. What did Coleman Silk do first as a boy when he went to Newark Boys Club in his neighborhood?
(a) Box.
(b) Run.
(c) Hide and read.
(d) Play hoops.

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

10. Coleman Silk is also the first dean of __________ for the college who has the characteristic as the answer to #8.
(a) Admissions.
(b) Honors Department.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Faculty.

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

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

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

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

15. What is the favorite piece of literature of Coleman's father, according to the book?
(a) Hamlet.
(b) Julius Caesar.
(c) Othello.
(d) A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is the woman that Coleman Silk is seeing after his wife's death?

2. What else did the person asking Coleman to do poorly in school say they would set up for Coleman?

3. At what college did Coleman Silk teach before his hasty departure from the college?

4. What happened to the two children that Faunia left with when they left the abusive husband and father?

5. What does Faunia have to do at her home in order to live without paying rent?

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