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

2. What does Ellie wonder about Anne's reaction to the jogger in the park?
(a) If Anne wanted to become a runner.
(b) If Anne would have called the police if the jogger had been white.
(c) If Anne would have screamed if the jogger had been white.
(d) What Anne found so funny.

3. What kind of literature did Miah and his mother read at the library, when he was little?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Graphic novels.
(c) Historical fiction.
(d) Non-fiction.

4. Where is Ellie when Anne finally calls?
(a) At school.
(b) With Jeremiah.
(c) In the shower.
(d) Asleep.

5. For what does Jeremiah cry at the end of Chapter 10?
(a) Ellie.
(b) For his mother.
(c) What is lost.
(d) Himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Jeremiah feels tears in his eyes for his parents, as the following day would have been which anniversary?

3. In Part Two, Chapter 19, Miah’s father tells him he is leaving for where for work in the morning?

4. How does Marion find out that Ellie had skipped math class?

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

(see the answer key)

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