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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jeremiah realize about the girl he had met that upsets him?
(a) She most likely is not interested in him.
(b) She probably already has a boyfriend.
(c) She is white like most of the other students at Percy.
(d) She is too young for him.

2. Where had Jeremiah's parents met?
(a) On a film set.
(b) On a summer vacation.
(c) In a summer college course.
(d) At a coffee shop.

3. Why is Ellie attending Percy?
(a) Her family moved too far away from her old school for her to attend it.
(b) Her public school is not rated well in a New York times article, and her parents can afford a private school.
(c) She was unhappy at her old school and is ready for a fresh start.
(d) She had been kicked out of her previous school for poor grades and truancy.

4. When one of Jeremiah's white teammates starts annoying him, what does he wonder?
(a) If he should tell him to stop.
(b) What he is doing at Percy.
(c) If the boy can be expelled for what he has said.
(d) If he can be transferred to another private school.

5. When does Jeremiah feel uncomfortable about his skin color?
(a) All the time.
(b) When he steps out of his own community.
(c) When he sees commercials on television.
(d) When he is with his white friends.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Anne call Ellie?

2. What do the black boys on Percy's basketball team call themselves?

3. What does Jeremiah partially hope the white kids at school will think about him?

4. How is Ellie affected by Marion’s leaving?

5. Why is Ellie's father absent from dinner, as usual?

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