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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While in the car with his father, Miah thinks back to the day he and Ellie had been walking along Fifth Avenue and who had started taunting them?
(a) Some white boys.
(b) Police officers.
(c) Two Black women.
(d) A little boy.

2. What does Miah know about his feelings for Ellie, in comparison to his father's feelings towards his mother?
(a) He never loved her in the first place.
(b) He would never outgrow Ellie.
(c) They would grow apart.
(d) He would probably outgrow her.

3. What white lie does Ellie tell her mother about why she will be home late in Chapter 20?
(a) She is going to Brooklyn to visit her aunt.
(b) She has play rehearsal.
(c) She is going out to dinner with friends.
(d) She is staying late at school.

4. What does Ellie think when her mother says that life would turn on her and set her down in some strange other place?
(a) She believes her life will never change.
(b) She believes she has already seen the worst, so any change would be welcome.
(c) Her mother already turned on her, so what could be worse.
(d) Ellie believes that she has been set down already in another place, but that this new place is perfect.

5. What does Miah’s father remind him about white neighborhoods?
(a) To always be with a white person.
(b) To not run in them.
(c) To never go in them.
(d) To avoid them, if possible.

6. In Chapter 12, what does Miah’s father want him to do?
(a) Meet some people.
(b) Make dinner.
(c) Go to his room to study.
(d) Sit on the couch to chat with him.

7. What does Ellie tell Jeremiah about her name?
(a) She wishes she could legally change her name.
(b) She wishes more people would call her Elisha.
(c) Her name is Elisha, but she prefers Ellie.
(d) She was given the same name as her grandmother.

8. What white lie does Miah tell his father about how he spends his weekends?
(a) He is with his girlfriend.
(b) He is at basketball games.
(c) He is with his mother.
(d) He is with friends from Percy.

9. When Ellie calls Jeremiah's name, and he turns to look at her, what does he say?
(a) He is having a hard time studying these days.
(b) He had just been thinking about her.
(c) He had hoped she would find him.
(d) Nothing.

10. Soon after Miah and Ellie are dating, how does Miah feel about the morning they spent together at school?
(a) Miah could not believe how fast the morning went.
(b) Miah was very nervous.
(c) This morning felt very odd.
(d) This moment of him and Ellie had always been there and always would be.

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

12. How do Ellie and Jeremiah respond to the old ladies who give them an disapproving look in Chapter 11?
(a) They glare right back at them.
(b) They tell them to leave them alone.
(c) They try to ignore them.
(d) They begin to cry.

13. In Part Two, Chapter 12, when Miah enters his father’s home, what is he wondering?
(a) When his father will move to LA.
(b) What to expect for dinner at his father's.
(c) What his mother is doing.
(d) How long he has to stay there.

14. Whose opinion of his dating a white girl is Miah curious?
(a) His teammates.
(b) His father.
(c) His friends from the neighborhood.
(d) Strangers.

15. Miah feels that, although his father loves him, what does he love more?
(a) Fame.
(b) Money.
(c) Making movies.
(d) His new girlfriend.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ellie explain to her mother that her skipping class was not the worst thing she could do?

2. What concerns Marion regarding Susan in Chapter 13?

3. What does Miah hear outside the window in Chapter 12?

4. Miah’s father says that white people do not realize they are white until when?

5. What does Miah realize about his relationship with his father?

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