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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Iris' father never married her mother because he is highly distrustful of ____________.
(a) The government.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Papers you have to sign.
(d) Iris' mother.

2. To what college does Mr. Silk want his son, Coleman, to go when he is able to go to college?
(a) Yale.
(b) Athena.
(c) Howard.
(d) Harvard.

3. Coleman Silk was a professor of _________ and Latin at the college.
(a) Spanish.
(b) Greek.
(c) Italian.
(d) French.

4. What would happen if Coleman decided to do poorly in a few classes?
(a) The other family's son would be valedictorian.
(b) He would get a new house.
(c) He could go to Harvard.
(d) He would fail out of school.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Faunia still have because she does not know what to do with them?

2. Coleman is convinced that the false accusations against him _________ his wife.

3. The investigation into Coleman's potential racist remark found him to be ______________.

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

5. What does Coleman do when he realizes that the woman from the Midwest is someone he wants to be with forever?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Doc Chizner tell Coleman not to tell the Pitt coach when he is applying for a scholarship?

2. What is the problem with Nathan's health which has changed him forever?

3. Why did Coleman and Iris marry if they were complete opposites without passion for each other?

4. What makes Iris a strong woman, according to the descriptions in the book?

5. What does the doctor offer to Coleman's family in return for the favor they request, though the Silks turn the offer down?

6. What did Coleman do on the day he went to the funeral parlor to make arrangements for a funeral?

7. What does Coleman do after his father dies when he is a student at Howard?

8. What does the doctor who visits Coleman's family when Coleman is in high school want from Coleman and his family?

9. What happened during the course of the investigation into Coleman Silk's accusations?

10. What does the lawyer tell Coleman in regards to the restraining order against Farley?

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