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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, What Do You Do with the Kid Who Can't Read?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What ended up bringing Iris and Coleman closer together during their marriage?
(a) Nathan.
(b) His affair.
(c) The investigation.
(d) Her disease.

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

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

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

5. What does Ellie point out to Coleman when he reveals his racial heritage with her?
(a) She is black.
(b) The other black men she knows who are passing.
(c) She doesn't care.
(d) She already knew.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Delphine obtain once she begins to hear rumors of Coleman's relationship with Faunia?

4. Coleman Silk is also the first dean of __________ for the college who has the characteristic as the answer to #8.

5. What does Coleman realize when he is trying to write his own story?

(see the answer key)

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