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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Jeremiah wants someone who can understand what about him?
(a) How different he feels from everyone else.
(b) The issues he has with his parents.
(c) His love-hate relationship with basketball.
(d) The loneliness he feels inside.

2. For what does Jeremiah cry at the end of Chapter 10?
(a) Himself.
(b) For his mother.
(c) Ellie.
(d) What is lost.

3. When does Jeremiah feel uncomfortable about his skin color?
(a) When he is with his white friends.
(b) All the time.
(c) When he steps out of his own community.
(d) When he sees commercials on television.

4. When one of Jeremiah's white teammates starts annoying him, what does he wonder?
(a) What he is doing at Percy.
(b) If the boy can be expelled for what he has said.
(c) If he should tell him to stop.
(d) If he can be transferred to another private school.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ellie feels when Anne asks about the boy she met?

2. How does Jeremiah remember reacting to seeing his father with Lois Ann, prior to knowing about their affair?

3. What does Jeremiah hear that makes him feel that the whole world is pointing at him and laughing?

4. How can Jeremiah tell he is Black?

5. How does the warmth of the sun on Jeremiah's skin make him feel?

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