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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What can Ellie not believe about Brooklyn?
(a) How different it is.
(b) How many trees there are.
(c) How close it is.
(d) How far away it is.

2. In Part Two, Chapter 16, what is the weather like when Ellie and Miah meet at the library?
(a) It is snowing.
(b) It is raining.
(c) It is cloudy.
(d) The sun is shining.

3. In Part Two, Chapter 20, Ellie remembers the only other time she had been to Brooklyn. Where did she go?
(a) To wander Prospect Park.
(b) To visit an elderly aunt in Flatbush.
(c) To see a Brooklyn Nets game.
(d) To play at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum.

4. What concerns Marion regarding Susan in Chapter 13?
(a) She would never call back.
(b) She may not come for Hanukkah either.
(c) She would be visiting more frequently.
(d) She misses her family very much.

5. 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.

6. How does Ellie remember the day she skipped math class?
(a) Worriedly.
(b) She does not remember it.
(c) Fondly.
(d) Sadly.

7. Miah reminds Ellie that the only way the racism they encounter as a couple would go away would be when?
(a) The world changes its views.
(b) They are older.
(c) They move to another country.
(d) If they are not together.

8. 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.

9. What do both Miah and his father hope happens when someone dies?
(a) They go to Heaven.
(b) They are never forgotten.
(c) They go someplace bigger and better.
(d) They are at peace.

10. What kind of memories does Miah have of coming to the library?
(a) Sad.
(b) Fond.
(c) Few.
(d) No.

11. As Ellie and Miah huddle together outside the library, who gives them a strange look?
(a) A group of white boys.
(b) A little girl.
(c) A Black woman.
(d) A librarian.

12. In Chapter 11, what does Jeremiah tell Ellie to call him?
(a) Jeremy.
(b) Miah-man.
(c) My man.
(d) Miah.

13. 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) Two Black women.
(c) Police officers.
(d) A little boy.

14. On whom does Marion blame Ellie's skipping class?
(a) The school.
(b) Ellie’s friends.
(c) Ellie.
(d) The boy.

15. When Ellie is very upset by the attitudes of others, to what does Miah tell her to compare it?
(a) Fall leaves.
(b) Snow.
(c) Dirt.
(d) Rain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of literature did Miah and his mother read at the library, when he was little?

2. What does Ellie think to herself regarding her relationship with Jeremiah at the end of Chapter 15?

3. Marion asked Ellie if skipping school was her way of showing what?

4. Miah feels that, although his father loves him, what does he love more?

5. What does Miah’s father say about his relationship with Nelia?

(see the answer keys)

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