View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Jeremiah feel now that his parents are separated?
(a) Relief.
(b) Pressure to pick between them.
(c) He feels nothing.
(d) Deep sadness for the loss of his family.

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

3. Jeremiah describes how he and other boys would give each other a hard time about what, particularly his friend Carlton?
(a) Their intelligence.
(b) Their skin color.
(c) Their skills on the basketball court.
(d) Their parents.

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

5. Jeremiah remembers flying on an airplane as a small child to visit his grandmother where?
(a) In the Northwest.
(b) In the West.
(c) In the Midwest.
(d) In the South.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ellie wonder regarding the fact that Anne has not called her since the last time they spoke on the phone?

2. In Part One, Chapter 6, why does Ellie have her hand on the phone?

3. Why is Jeremiah transferred into Ellie's history class?

4. Where had Jeremiah's parents met?

5. What is the weather the day Ellie and Jeremiah first meet?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jeremiah end up in Ellie's history class?

2. What do various family members tell Jeremiah about his blackness?

3. How is racism revealed in Ellie's own home in this section (Chapters 6-10)?

4. Why is it assumed Jeremiah is placed in the wrong history class?

5. Why does Anne call Ellie?

6. How does Jeremiah feel about his new teammates?

7. How does Jeremiah feel regarding his new Black teammates?

8. Why does Jeremiah now attend Percy?

9. What old routine do Ellie and her father discuss?

10. How does Anne react when she finds out Jeremiah is Black?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,044 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample