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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How do Jeremiah and Ellie end up in Central Park after they run into each other in the hallway?
2. What treat does Jeremiah share with Ellie in Chapter 11?
3. What white lie does Ellie tell her mother about why she will be home late in Chapter 20?
4. What brings Ellie to Brooklyn for the first time with Miah?
5. What do both Miah and his father hope happens when someone dies?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Ellie react to her mother's conversation with her sister Susan?
2. How does Ellie react when her mother finds out she skipped math class?
3. What does Miah's father say happened to his relationship with Nelia?
4. How does Miah find his father, when he enters the living room?
5. How does Miah suggest he and Ellie deal with the negative attitudes of others towards them?
6. On the drive to East Hampton, what does Miah's father have to say about white people?
7. What are the memories Miah has of the library on Fifth Avenue?
8. Why does Marion think Ellie skipped class?
9. About what does Miah think while he is in his room at his father's home?
10. How does Chapter 14 end?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Although If You Come Softly was published in 1998, how is it relevant to today? What elements of this book are timeless? How might this book stand the test of time? Why?
Essay Topic 2
How do Jeremiah and Ellie feel about themselves? How do they both see a kindred spirit in the eyes of the other? How does this finding of themselves in the other influence their feelings towards each other, as the story progresses?
Essay Topic 3
The story ends with Ellie preparing for high school graduation and a future at a college of her choice but without the excitement of her peers. Unlike Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet" she does not die alongside Jeremiah, but how, in some ways is she like Juliet? How might she resemble Maria from "West Side Story?" Does she have more hope for her future than these two women? Why or why not?
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