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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Miah know that Ellie wants to go home and not go to his mother's for dinner in Chapter 20?
(a) She starts to cry.
(b) She keeps looking away from him.
(c) He can see it in her eyes.
(d) She tells him.

2. What are both Jeremiah and Ellie doing when Ellie sees him in the hallway in Chapter 11?
(a) Skipping class.
(b) Getting a drink from the drinking fountain.
(c) Heading to the restroom.
(d) Getting assignments out of their lockers.

3. In Part One, Chapter 6, why does Ellie have her hand on the phone?
(a) She is hoping Jeremiah will call.
(b) She is about to call her mother.
(c) She thought she heard the phone ring.
(d) She is hoping her sister, Anne, will call her.

4. What does Ellie wonder about Anne's reaction to the jogger in the park?
(a) If Anne wanted to become a runner.
(b) What Anne found so funny.
(c) If Anne would have called the police if the jogger had been white.
(d) If Anne would have screamed if the jogger had been white.

5. What does Ellie miss about her relationship with her father?
(a) Their morning walks together.
(b) Their Sunday tradition of reading the New York Times.
(c) How easy and honest is used to be.
(d) Their Sunday tradition of playing chess.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Miah's response when his father asks why he does not see Miah as often in Chapter 19?

2. While in the car with his father, Miah thinks back to the day he and Ellie had been walking along Fifth Avenue and who had started taunting them?

3. What does Miah’s father say about his relationship with Nelia?

4. What does a kid run up to Ellie and Miah and ask if he can do?

5. In Part Two, Chapter 16, what is the weather like when Ellie and Miah meet at the library?

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