2. Who are the other two Black players on Percy's basketball team?
(a) Johnson and Jackson.
(b) Michaels and John.
(c) Miah and Elisha.
(d) Rayshon and Kennedy.

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

4. Why is Ellie's father absent from dinner, as usual?
(a) He lives across the street in another apartment.
(b) He is in his home office eating dinner alone.
(c) He is a doctor.
(d) He is at an office party.

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

6. What does Carlton want to know about Miah?
(a) When he is free to play basketball.
(b) What he thinks of his new school.
(c) If he will come back to Brooklyn Tech.
(d) What his mom is cooking for dinner.

7. 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 called the police.
(b) She ran the other direction.
(c) She screamed.
(d) She started laughing.

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

9. What does Jeremiah do towards Ellie at the end of Chapter 7?
(a) He winks at her.
(b) He hugs her.
(c) He kisses her.
(d) He ignores her.

10. As Jeremiah watches his mother prepare dinner, what does he wonder?
(a) If he could ever be as good a cook as her.
(b) How she became such a good cook.
(c) If he will ever be able to bring the girl from school home for dinner.
(d) How his father could ever choose to leave her for someone else.

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

12. 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 returned to teaching and lecturing full time.
(c) When she was pregnant with Jeremiah.
(d) When his father left.

13. In what group of people does Carlton feel he does not belong?
(a) His school.
(b) His mother's relatives out west.
(c) His community.
(d) His church.

14. What is Carlton's response when Jeremiah asks what it is like being the kid of a biracial couple?
(a) He does not know any different.
(b) It is fun.
(c) It is weird.
(d) It is challenging.

15. What does Jeremiah notice about Ellie?
(a) Her white skin.
(b) Her hair.
(c) The sweet sadness in her eyes.
(d) Her Star of David necklace.