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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 had Jeremiah's mother who was a published writer, stop writing?
(a) When she had earned enough to live off of the books she had written.
(b) When she was pregnant with Jeremiah.
(c) When his father left.
(d) When she returned to teaching and lecturing full time.

2. How is Ellie affected by Marion’s leaving?
(a) It makes it difficult for Ellie to love and trust her.
(b) She is not affected by it.
(c) She is occasionally upset about her mother leaving.
(d) She is not longer affected by it, as she now trusts her mother to never leave again.

3. When does Jeremiah feel uncomfortable about his skin color?
(a) When he is with his white friends.
(b) When he steps out of his own community.
(c) When he sees commercials on television.
(d) All the time.

4. How does the warmth of the sun on Jeremiah's skin make him feel?
(a) Safe.
(b) Angry.
(c) Nervous.
(d) Sad.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ellie wonder about Anne's reaction to the jogger in the park?

2. What does Jeremiah’s father call him, because he is Black?

3. In Part One, Chapter 6, why does Ellie have her hand on the phone?

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

5. What does Jeremiah notice about Ellie?

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