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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What does Jeremiah realize about the girl he had met that upsets him?
(a) She probably already has a boyfriend.
(b) She is too young for him.
(c) She is white like most of the other students at Percy.
(d) She most likely is not interested in him.

3. On what does Marion blame Ellie's desire to be on her own?
(a) Ellie's father is a bit of a recluse.
(b) Marion blames herself.
(c) The fact she had been born much later after her siblings and got used to being on her own.
(d) Ellie's shyness.

4. Ellie remembers a time she and Anne had been in Central Park. What was Anne's reaction to a Black runner coming at them?
(a) She called the police.
(b) She screamed.
(c) She started laughing.
(d) She ran the other direction.

5. Jeremiah has grown used to being an only child but still wishes for what?
(a) Someone who could know him deeply.
(b) A closer relationship with his parents.
(c) A large family.
(d) A sibling.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jeremiah partially hope the white kids at school will think about him?

2. Where does Jeremiah’s grandmother always tell him to sit?

3. How serious are the jabs between Jeremiah and his friends?

4. As Jeremiah and his mother reminisce about his father’s mother, to what do Jeremiah’s thoughts wander?

5. How does Ellie feel about being a loner?

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