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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ellie miss about her relationship with her father?
(a) How easy and honest is used to be.
(b) Their Sunday tradition of reading the New York Times.
(c) Their morning walks together.
(d) Their Sunday tradition of playing chess.

2. As Jeremiah and his mother reminisce about his father’s mother, to what do Jeremiah’s thoughts wander?
(a) His father.
(b) His homework.
(c) His old school.
(d) The girl from school.

3. To where had Carlton’s sister moved to escape judging eyes?
(a) LA.
(b) England.
(c) France.
(d) Chicago.

4. What does Mr. Hazelton do to get Ellie and Jeremiah's attention?
(a) He asks Jeremiah about the Fifth Amendment.
(b) He claps his hands loudly.
(c) He tells them to be quiet.
(d) He asks if they would like to go on a date later to finish their conversation.

5. What does Ellie wonder regarding the fact that Anne has not called her since the last time they spoke on the phone?
(a) What must be keeping Anne so busy.
(b) What Ellie could do to pacify Anne.
(c) What Ellie has done wrong.
(d) What has happened to Anne.

6. How long ago had Jeremiah's grandmother died?
(a) 5 years.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 5 months.
(d) 2 weeks.

7. What do the black boys on Percy's basketball team call themselves?
(a) The Three Black Stooges.
(b) The Three Black Musketeers.
(c) The Three Black Bears.
(d) The Three Black Warriors.

8. What does Carlton want to know about Miah?
(a) If he will come back to Brooklyn Tech.
(b) What he thinks of his new school.
(c) When he is free to play basketball.
(d) What his mom is cooking for dinner.

9. Ellie remembers a time she and Anne had been in Central Park. What was Anne's reaction to a Black runner coming at them?
(a) She started laughing.
(b) She called the police.
(c) She ran the other direction.
(d) She screamed.

10. How does Carlton feel about what Miah is going through, regarding his parents?
(a) Annoyed.
(b) Sad.
(c) Worried.
(d) Angry.

11. When does Jeremiah run into Carlton in Chapter 8?
(a) On his way home from school.
(b) At Brooklyn Tech.
(c) On the bus.
(d) On the subway.

12. How does Ellie respond when her father asks about the boy from school?
(a) She is annoyed her mother mentioned it.
(b) She is shy and embarrassed.
(c) She is relieved to hear he already knows.
(d) She is very upset with him for bringing it up.

13. For what does Jeremiah cry at the end of Chapter 10?
(a) For his mother.
(b) Ellie.
(c) Himself.
(d) What is lost.

14. 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.

15. Why is Jeremiah disappointed about being placed in remedial history?
(a) The school did not give him a placement test and assumed he needed remedial history.
(b) He is embarrassed about being in a remedial class.
(c) He does not like the teacher.
(d) He is bored in the class.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ellie let Jeremiah know what her name is?

2. How does Anne respond when Ellie mentions that Jeremiah is Black?

3. In Part Two, Chapter 9, what is Ellie doing as she watches the sunlight stream in the windows of her empty apartment?

4. How does Jeremiah feel now that his parents are separated?

5. How serious are the jabs between Jeremiah and his friends?

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