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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Jeremiah remembers flying on an airplane as a small child to visit his grandmother where?
(a) In the Midwest.
(b) In the Northwest.
(c) In the West.
(d) In the South.

4. How long ago had Jeremiah's grandmother died?
(a) 5 years.
(b) 2 weeks.
(c) 5 months.
(d) 2 years.

5. What does Ellie call Anne before hanging up on her?
(a) Cruel.
(b) Her favorite sister.
(c) A jerk.
(d) A lesbian.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the black boys on Percy's basketball team call themselves?

2. How long is Marion gone the first time she leaves her family?

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

4. How does Anne respond when Ellie mentions that Jeremiah is Black?

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

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