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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ellie wonder regarding the fact that Anne has not called her since the last time they spoke on the phone?
(a) What must be keeping Anne so busy.
(b) What Ellie could do to pacify Anne.
(c) What has happened to Anne.
(d) What Ellie has done wrong.

2. How serious are the jabs between Jeremiah and his friends?
(a) Sometimes serious.
(b) Very serious.
(c) Not serious.
(d) Somewhat serious.

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

4. Jeremiah wants someone who can understand what about him?
(a) The issues he has with his parents.
(b) The loneliness he feels inside.
(c) How different he feels from everyone else.
(d) His love-hate relationship with basketball.

5. What does Mr. Hazelton do to get Ellie and Jeremiah's attention?
(a) He claps his hands loudly.
(b) He tells them to be quiet.
(c) He asks Jeremiah about the Fifth Amendment.
(d) He asks if they would like to go on a date later to finish their conversation.

6. Why is Jeremiah transferred into Ellie's history class?
(a) He is missing a history credit.
(b) It works better in his schedule.
(c) He did not get along with his previous teacher.
(d) He had accidentally been placed in remedial history.

7. 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 is too young for him.
(d) She most likely is not interested in him.

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

9. At what is Ellie looking when she bumps into Jeremiah?
(a) Herself in a mirror.
(b) Another student.
(c) Her class schedule.
(d) Her cell phone.

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

11. To where had Carlton’s sister moved to escape judging eyes?
(a) Chicago.
(b) England.
(c) LA.
(d) France.

12. How does Jeremiah remember reacting to seeing his father with Lois Ann, prior to knowing about their affair?
(a) He was curious about them.
(b) He smiled at them.
(c) He laughed at them.
(d) He frowned at them.

13. Why is Jeremiah disappointed about being placed in remedial history?
(a) The school did not give him a placement test and assumed he needed remedial history.
(b) He is embarrassed about being in a remedial class.
(c) He does not like the teacher.
(d) He is bored in the class.

14. Why does Anne call Ellie?
(a) To tell her she is coming home for a visit.
(b) That she wants Ellie to visit her in San Francisco.
(c) To invite her to her commitment ceremony with her girlfriend, Stacey.
(d) To invite her to live with her and attend school in California.

15. What does Ellie think has happened to Jeremiah, since she has not seen him since that first encounter?
(a) He has left Percy.
(b) He is very busy.
(c) He was a figment of her imagination.
(d) He does not like her.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ellie let Jeremiah know what her name is?

2. When one of Jeremiah's white teammates starts annoying him, what does he wonder?

3. How long ago had Jeremiah's grandmother died?

4. How does Carlton feel about what Miah is going through, regarding his parents?

5. How does Carlton respond after Jeremiah describes his feelings for Ellie?

(see the answer keys)

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