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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. Who did Coleman's student complain to, regarding the incident in #96?
(a) Delphine.
(b) Nathan.
(c) Faunia.
(d) Iris.

2. What is not listed in Faunia's records when they are obtained for future investigation?
(a) Her SAT score.
(b) Her illiteracy.
(c) Her dead children.
(d) Her abuse.

3. Delphine finds many of the men at her school to be ________ or lazy.
(a) Ignorant.
(b) Tedious.
(c) Poor.
(d) Arrogant.

4. But Faunia is really mad at Coleman because she ____________ and she is mad at herself.
(a) She has lied to him.
(b) Does know how to read.
(c) Feels unattractive.
(d) Spent the night.

5. Nathan sees ___________ and Coleman one Saturday in August while attending the symphony.
(a) Lisa.
(b) Faunia.
(c) Ernestine.
(d) Delphine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Faunia go after her fight with Coleman one morning?

2. Where does Delphine try to garner the attention of an older man, though she fails?

3. Coleman compares the men around Faunia to __________ and thinks the men are thinking about taking advantage of her as well.

4. Who does Coleman suddenly want to confront when he is thinking about the accusations against him?

5. Delphine decides to write a ________ to appear in the New York Review of Books.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is in the content of the first letter that Delphine writes to Coleman, though she tears it up?

2. What happens to the personal ad Delphine sends out in order to find love?

3. What are Delphine's ideas about women and about their sexuality?

4. How does Nathan encounter Coleman and Faunia at the open rehearsal of the Boston Symphony?

5. What are the three men on the campus of Athena College talking about as Coleman is sitting on a bench?

6. What does Les think he has to do in order to be able to feel things again?

7. What does Coleman think when he sees the members of the Elderhostel classes walking to the dining hall?

8. What is the real reason Faunia gets angry with Coleman for reading to her when they get up the next morning?

9. What does Nathan come to realize is the reason why Coleman stayed away from him?

10. What does Lisa think about Coleman's obvious attraction to Faunia?

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