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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. What picture does Carlos draw for Grandma?
(a) A picture of Jerome.
(b) A picture of Kim.
(c) A picture of himself.
(d) A picture of herself.

2. What are the ghost boys trying to do on earth?
(a) Be seen.
(b) Change the living.
(c) Change the world.
(d) Help people.

3. How does Jerome's perspective of Chicago change after death?
(a) He realizes it is small.
(b) He realizes it is not that small.
(c) He realizes it is beautiful.
(d) He realizes it is ugly.

4. Who does Jerome continue to shadow?
(a) Ma.
(b) Kim and Grandma.
(c) Pop.
(d) Carlos.

5. What does Emmett mean by "bear witness"?
(a) Do not listen to people's stories.
(b) Watch and observe.
(c) Look to him for guidance.
(d) LIsten to people's stories.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why has Jerome stopped shadowing his parents?

2. What question does Jerome ask Emmett at the end of the book?

3. Who does Emmett not take seriously?

4. How does Jerome spend his days?

5. What does Jerome realize about the ghost boys at the end of the book?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did Emmett Till live when he was a kid?

2. What does Kim say she will give to Carlos?

3. Why did Emmett's cousins panic when he came out of the grocery store?

4. What does Jerome think of Carlos?

5. What does Officer Moore say when the prosecutor asks him if he told Jerome to raise his hands?

6. What does Carlos confess to Grandma?

7. Why does Sarah build a website?

8. What happens when Carlos and Kim face Eddie, Snap, and Mike?

9. Why did two white men come to Emmett's cousins' house in the middle of the night in 1955?

10. Why has Jerome stopped shadowing his parents?

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