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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 does the judge remind the court?
(a) The hearing is not over yet.
(b) The hearing could be reopened.
(c) The hearing is not to determine innocence or guilt.
(d) The hearing is to determine innocence or guilt.

2. What does Grandma say is too soon for her?
(a) Letting Carlos walk Kim to school.
(b) Sleeping alone.
(c) Leaving Kim on her own.
(d) Eating entire meals.

3. How does Emmett Till die?
(a) He is shot and lynched by white men.
(b) He dies of illness.
(c) He is stabbed by white men.
(d) He is drowned by white men.

4. How does Jerome spend his days?
(a) Listening.
(b) Talking.
(c) Roaming.
(d) Dreaming.

5. What does Jerome want for his family?
(a) For them to miss him.
(b) For them to move on.
(c) For them to move away.
(d) For them to be happy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Emmett say can make change?

2. Why does Jerome worry for his parents?

3. Who does not mind showing their grief?

4. What is the point of the preliminary hearings?

5. What does Grandma offer to Carlos?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Where is Carlos from?

4. What book does Sarah give Kim?

5. What does Sarah ask her dad to help her with?

6. Why does Sarah build a website?

7. What does Officer Moore say when the prosecutor asks him why he shot Jerome in the back?

8. What toy is Jerome playing with at the end of the novel?

9. What does Carlos confess to Grandma?

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

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