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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 himself.
(b) A picture of Kim.
(c) A picture of Jerome.
(d) A picture of herself.

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

3. What question does Jerome ask Emmett at the end of the book?
(a) If their work is done.
(b) If they will see each other again.
(c) If the murders will end.
(d) If he will go to Heaven.

4. Why did Carlos give Jerome the gift?
(a) So he could play with him later.
(b) So he could have a friend.
(c) So he could play with Kim later.
(d) So he could have fun.

5. When is All Saints' Day?
(a) November 1.
(b) December 25.
(c) July 4.
(d) April 1.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kim say Jerome never had?

2. What does Grandma offer to Carlos?

3. What book is Kim gifted?

4. Who does not mind showing their grief?

5. What is the point of the preliminary hearings?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Kim tell Carlos he needs to do?

2. What does Carlos confess to Grandma?

3. How did Emmett Till die?

4. What does Moore say when the prosecutor asks him if he rendered aid at the site of Jerome's death?

5. Why does Sarah build a website?

6. What did Emmett's cousins warn him about when they took him to town?

7. What book does Sarah give Kim?

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

9. Why has Jerome stopped shadowing his parents?

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

(see the answer keys)

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