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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where had Jeremiah's parents met?
(a) In a summer college course.
(b) At a coffee shop.
(c) On a film set.
(d) On a summer vacation.

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

3. As Jeremiah and his mother reminisce about his father’s mother, to what do Jeremiah’s thoughts wander?
(a) His father.
(b) The girl from school.
(c) His homework.
(d) His old school.

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

5. What happens when Jeremiah and Ellie's shoulders touch in history class?
(a) They move away from each other quickly.
(b) They begin to laugh.
(c) They apologize.
(d) They stay that way the rest of class.

6. What is Mr. Hazelton's response when Jeremiah replies that the amendment is the right to silence?
(a) The two of them should both be silent.
(b) The two of them should plead the Fifth.
(c) The two of them should review the Fifth Amendment.
(d) The two of them should memorize the rest of the amendments.

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

8. 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.

9. In Part Two, Chapter 10, Jeremiah looks at the old photographs of him in the frames and finally what photograph?
(a) His mother and father on their wedding day.
(b) His mother in her wedding dress.
(c) Him and his mother and father.
(d) His mother as a young girl.

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

11. What does Ellie miss about her relationship with her father?
(a) How easy and honest is used to be.
(b) Their Sunday tradition of playing chess.
(c) Their morning walks together.
(d) Their Sunday tradition of reading the New York Times.

12. How does Ellie show her father that Jeremiah is intelligent?
(a) She tells him that Jeremiah will most likely graduate early.
(b) She tells him Jeremiah's IQ score.
(c) She tells him that Jeremiah is in all honors classes.
(d) She tells him that Jeremiah has memorized the 27 amendments in order.

13. How does Anne respond when Ellie mentions that Jeremiah is Black?
(a) She is angry.
(b) She is surprised and excited.
(c) She is shocked and concerned.
(d) She does not care that he is black.

14. 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 was pregnant with Jeremiah.
(d) When she returned to teaching and lecturing full time.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Part Two, Chapter 8, how does Jeremiah feel about waiting for class to end?

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

4. How does the warmth of the sun on Jeremiah's skin make him feel?

5. How serious are the jabs between Jeremiah and his friends?

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