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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Jeremiah feel now that his parents are separated?
(a) Deep sadness for the loss of his family.
(b) Relief.
(c) Pressure to pick between them.
(d) He feels nothing.

2. What does Jeremiah partially hope the white kids at school will think about him?
(a) That he got accepted into the school because of his intelligence.
(b) That he is the writer Nelia Roselind's son.
(c) That he is on scholarship.
(d) That is is the famous Norman Roselind's son.

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

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

5. How long has Lois Ann been Jeremiah's neighbor across the street?
(a) 12 years.
(b) 2 years.
(c) A few weeks.
(d) A few months.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When had Jeremiah's mother who was a published writer, stop writing?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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