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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ellie wonder regarding the fact that Anne has not called her since the last time they spoke on the phone?
(a) What must be keeping Anne so busy.
(b) What Ellie has done wrong.
(c) What has happened to Anne.
(d) What Ellie could do to pacify Anne.

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

3. What do the black boys on Percy's basketball team call themselves?
(a) The Three Black Bears.
(b) The Three Black Stooges.
(c) The Three Black Musketeers.
(d) The Three Black Warriors.

4. In Part Two, Chapter 10, Jeremiah looks at the old photographs of him in the frames and finally what photograph?
(a) His mother in her wedding dress.
(b) His mother and father on their wedding day.
(c) Him and his mother and father.
(d) His mother as a young girl.

5. Why is Ellie's father absent from dinner, as usual?
(a) He is at an office party.
(b) He is in his home office eating dinner alone.
(c) He lives across the street in another apartment.
(d) He is a doctor.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part Two, Chapter 9, what is Ellie doing as she watches the sunlight stream in the windows of her empty apartment?

2. Who greets Ellie as she enters her Upper West Side building?

3. Who are the other two Black players on Percy's basketball team?

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

5. How does Ellie respond when her father asks about the boy from school?

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