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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who greets Ellie as she enters her Upper West Side building?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her father.
(c) Jeremiah.
(d) The doorman.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is Ellie attending Percy?

3. Jeremiah describes how he and other boys would give each other a hard time about what, particularly his friend Carlton?

4. Where had Jeremiah's parents met?

5. How does Ellie feel about being a loner?

(see the answer key)

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