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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5 Disintegration of Funk.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Cole react to her father's comments about the interracial couple in Chapter 3?
(a) She ignores him.
(b) She takes their picture.
(c) She chides him for being too sensitive.
(d) She cries.

2. How does Carmen treat Cole?
(a) She is friendly and fixes Cole's hair.
(b) She is kind and teaches Cole how to drive.
(c) She ignores Cole completely.
(d) She is rude and makes cutting remarks about Deck.

3. Where do Birdie and Cole sleep?
(a) Together in the attic bedroom.
(b) Together on the pull-out couch.
(c) Together in the basement bedroom.
(d) In separate rooms.

4. Why does the school clerk want to assign Birdie and Cole to different public schools?
(a) The schools are overcrowded.
(b) She wants to place Birdie in an all-white school.
(c) For the sake of diversity.
(d) Because Birdie looks too young to attend Junior High.

5. What do Cole and Birdie learn from an Ebony magazine article?
(a) How to braid their hair.
(b) About forced integration.
(c) Black English.
(d) How to wear turbans.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why doesn't Deck want to leave with Sandy?

2. What item does Cole wear at the end of Chapter 5 as she leaves Birdie a present?

3. Which character confronts Birdie on the playground?

4. What offensive name does Carmen begin calling Birdie?

5. What strange items are placed in Sandy's basement in Chapter 4?

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