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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Jeremiah admit to Carlton about Ellie?
(a) He has never thought about dating a white girl.
(b) He has never thought about dating someone who is Jewish.
(c) He has never thought about dating someone younger than himself.
(d) He has never thought about dating a wealthy girl before.

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

4. What is the kind of love that Anne describes which is when two people love each other early on but no longer do but stay together because they do not know how to be with anyone else?
(a) A slow love.
(b) Plain love.
(c) Marion-Edward love.
(d) Quick-fix binge love.

5. What does Marion ask Ellie regarding her truancy?
(a) Why Marion and Ellie's father deserved this.
(b) Why she dislikes her new school.
(c) Why she hates math so much.
(d) How she could be so disobedient.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long has Lois Ann been Jeremiah's neighbor across the street?

2. How does Jeremiah remember reacting to seeing his father with Lois Ann, prior to knowing about their affair?

3. In Part Two, Chapter 16, what is the weather like when Ellie and Miah meet at the library?

4. How does Ellie feel about the ability of her and her mother to grow close?

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

(see the answer key)

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