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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pop do every morning?
(a) Check on his kids while they sleep.
(b) Eat toast.
(c) Drink coffee.
(d) Eat cereal.

2. Who is Ms. Penny?
(a) A nurse.
(b) A librarian.
(c) A dentist.
(d) A judge.

3. Who received the 911 call the night Jerome was killed?
(a) An older man.
(b) A young woman.
(c) An older woman.
(d) A young man.

4. Who did the ghost boy want to be before he grew up?
(a) A baseball player.
(b) A dentist.
(c) A basketball player.
(d) A doctor.

5. Who else other than Officer Moore gets questioned at the hearing?
(a) Ma.
(b) Kim.
(c) Pop.
(d) The 911 operator.

6. Who else can Sarah see besides Jerome?
(a) Carlos.
(b) Ghost boy.
(c) Grandpa.
(d) Ma.

7. What makes Kim feel better?
(a) Walking.
(b) Writing.
(c) Reading.
(d) Dancing.

8. What did Officer Moore do to Jerome?
(a) He helped him.
(b) He put him behind bars.
(c) He killed him.
(d) He wounded him.

9. Who is Sarah?
(a) Jerome's neighbor.
(b) Officer Moore's daughter.
(c) Jerome's classmate.
(d) Jerome's crush.

10. What does an officer claim Jerome Rogers had in his possession?
(a) Drugs.
(b) A knife.
(c) A basketball.
(d) A gun.

11. Where is the narrator at the beginning of the book?
(a) At the beach.
(b) Lying on the ground.
(c) At a diner.
(d) At home.

12. Who dies at the beginning of the book?
(a) Ma.
(b) The narrator.
(c) Carlos.
(d) Ms. Penny.

13. Whose parents fight?
(a) Jerome's.
(b) Kim's.
(c) Carlos's.
(d) Sarah's.

14. Whose school is mainly white?
(a) Sarah's.
(b) Jerome's.
(c) Carlos's.
(d) Kim's.

15. Who does Jerome take pity on at school?
(a) Eddie.
(b) Carlos.
(c) Kim.
(d) Snap.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose school is mainly Black and Hispanic?

2. Why do people gather in Jerome's room?

3. Where was Emmett in the summer of 1955?

4. Why does Ma want the funeral to be open casket?

5. Where is Carlos from?

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