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

2. What is Miah's response when his father asks why he does not see Miah as often in Chapter 19?
(a) He is too busy with his new girlfriend.
(b) He is often at school for basketball practice.
(c) He has a lot of schoolwork, and it is quieter at his mother’s.
(d) He does not want to see his father.

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

4. Anne says that if Ellie finds what kind of love, she will know it when she finds it?
(a) Plain love.
(b) A slow love.
(c) Perfect love.
(d) Marion-Edward love.

5. How does Marion respond to Susan's call in Chapter 13?
(a) She is joyful.
(b) She cries.
(c) She tries to make her feel guilty.
(d) She is surprised.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 11, what does Jeremiah tell Ellie to call him?

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

3. What does Ellie think when her mother says that life would turn on her and set her down in some strange other place?

4. Soon after Miah and Ellie are dating, how does Miah feel about the morning they spent together at school?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are the types of love Anne describes to Ellie?

3. What takes place under the maple tree in Central Park?

4. How does Miah's father respond when Miah tells him he spends his weekends in Manhattan with his Percy friends?

5. What upsets Ellie as she and Miah huddle outside the library?

6. What do both Miah and his father say about the afterlife?

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

8. What does Miah's father say happened to his relationship with Nelia?

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

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

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