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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 21-26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Miah hear outside the window in Chapter 12?
(a) Girls counting and a boy playing basketball.
(b) Sirens.
(c) Birds chirping.
(d) His mother singing.

2. What does Miah’s father say about his relationship with Nelia?
(a) They were never in love to begin with.
(b) They never stopped loving each other, even though their marriage ended.
(c) They were outgrowing each other when he fell in love with Lois Ann.
(d) They love each other differently now.

3. Where will Ellie spend her summer after high school?
(a) In Manhattan with her friends.
(b) In California with her siblings.
(c) In Brooklyn with Nelia.
(d) In Paris with her cousin.

4. How does Ellie feel prior to meeting Nelia?
(a) Angry.
(b) Sad.
(c) Bored.
(d) Nervous.

5. In Part One, Chapter 6, why does Ellie have her hand on the phone?
(a) She thought she heard the phone ring.
(b) She is hoping Jeremiah will call.
(c) She is about to call her mother.
(d) She is hoping her sister, Anne, will call her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ellie think of Carlton upon meeting him?

2. What does Ellie miss about her relationship with her father?

3. In Chapter 11, what does Jeremiah tell Ellie to call him?

4. Why does Miah say that he has to meet Ellie's parents?

5. Part Two, Chapter 25 is part of the poem that Miah’s mother used to recite to him and begins with, “And if you come I will be silent” and ends how?

(see the answer key)

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