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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Jeremiah’s grandmother always tell him to sit?
(a) In the aircondioning.
(b) In the shade.
(c) In the back.
(d) In the sun.

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

3. What is the weather the day Ellie and Jeremiah first meet?
(a) Windy.
(b) Sunny.
(c) Snowy.
(d) Rainy.

4. Why is Ellie attending Percy?
(a) She was unhappy at her old school and is ready for a fresh start.
(b) Her family moved too far away from her old school for her to attend it.
(c) She had been kicked out of her previous school for poor grades and truancy.
(d) Her public school is not rated well in a New York times article, and her parents can afford a private school.

5. How long is Marion gone the first time she leaves her family?
(a) 3 years.
(b) 3 weeks.
(c) 3 days.
(d) 3 months.

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

7. How does Carlton feel about what Miah is going through, regarding his parents?
(a) Angry.
(b) Worried.
(c) Sad.
(d) Annoyed.

8. In Part Two, Chapter 7, what is Ellie doing in Mr. Hazelton’s history class prior to Jeremiah walking in?
(a) She is working on schoolwork.
(b) She is reading out loud.
(c) She is watching the rain out the window.
(d) She is writing a note to a friend.

9. Ellie remembers a time she and Anne had been in Central Park. What was Anne's reaction to a Black runner coming at them?
(a) She ran the other direction.
(b) She called the police.
(c) She screamed.
(d) She started laughing.

10. 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 has done wrong.
(c) What has happened to Anne.
(d) What Ellie could do to pacify Anne.

11. 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 shyness.
(c) Ellie's father is a bit of a recluse.
(d) Marion blames herself.

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

13. What does Jeremiah hear that makes him feel that the whole world is pointing at him and laughing?
(a) Glass breaking.
(b) Someone laughing.
(c) Someone screaming.
(d) Screeching tires.

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

15. Jeremiah describes how he and other boys would give each other a hard time about what, particularly his friend Carlton?
(a) Their parents.
(b) Their skin color.
(c) Their intelligence.
(d) Their skills on the basketball court.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jeremiah feel now that his parents are separated?

2. Where had Jeremiah's parents met?

3. What is Carlton's response when Jeremiah asks what it is like being the kid of a biracial couple?

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

5. In Part Two, Chapter 10, Jeremiah looks at the old photographs of him in the frames and finally what photograph?

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