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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 does Ellie react when she learns who Miah's parents are?
2. Who does Miah find in the living room of his father's home in Chapter 12?
3. Why does Susan call in Chapter 13?
4. What does Miah's father think when Miah says he sometimes thinks he hears his grandmother whispering in his ear that she is good where she is?
5. What does Ellie think when her mother says that life would turn on her and set her down in some strange other place?
Short Essay Questions
1. What upsets Ellie as she and Miah huddle outside the library?
2. How does Miah find his father, when he enters the living room?
3. How does Chapter 14 end?
4. How does Ellie resond to Miah's request she come for dinner after practice?
5. What do both Miah and his father say about the afterlife?
6. Why does Marion think Ellie skipped class?
7. How does Ellie react to her mother's conversation with her sister Susan?
8. How does Ellie react when her mother finds out she skipped math class?
9. About what does Miah think while he is in his room at his father's home?
10. How does Miah's father respond when Miah tells him he spends his weekends in Manhattan with his Percy friends?
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
The relationship between parent and child is important to If You Come Softly. What is revealed about both parents and children? How does this affect the parent-child relationship? Is this universal? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
Early in the story Miah says he does not fit in, as he is Black but worldly. How does the story reveal that Miah’s father is in much the same way an outsider? What other characters do not fit the typical mold? How does this affect them? How do they deal with this? What is the author’s purpose for creating these unique characters?
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