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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Miah not tell Ellie who his parents are for so long?
(a) He keeps forgetting to bring it up.
(b) He does not like his parents.
(c) He wants her to like him for him and not his famous parents.
(d) He is embarrassed.

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

3. What season is it in Part Two, Chapter 13?
(a) Spring.
(b) Summer.
(c) Fall.
(d) Winter.

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

5. What is the first type of love Anne describes which she compares to investing in the stock market?
(a) Quick-fix binge love.
(b) Perfect love.
(c) A slow love.
(d) Marion-Edward love.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Ellie finally call her mother, "Ma"?

2. What is Miah's response when his father asks why he does not see Miah as often in Chapter 19?

3. What is Miah's father's response when Miah asks him if he thinks that maybe there is at least one white person who is different?

4. In Part Two, Chapter 17, Miah’s father drives Miah where?

5. Miah reminds Ellie that the only way the racism they encounter as a couple would go away would be when?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Miah suggest he and Ellie deal with the negative attitudes of others towards them?

2. How does Miah find his father, when he enters the living room?

3. On the drive to East Hampton, what does Miah's father have to say about white people?

4. How does Ellie feel when she finds Jeremiah in the hallway?

5. How do other kids at school react to Ellie and Miah being a couple?

6. How does Ellie describe her first visit to Brooklyn?

7. What leads to Ellie and Miah cutting class and heading to Central Park?

8. How does Chapter 14 end?

9. How does Ellie react to her mother's conversation with her sister Susan?

10. How does Ellie feel about her mother learning about a boy in Ellie's life from Anne?

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