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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 sun.
(d) In the back.

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

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

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

5. 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 his father could ever choose to leave her for someone else.
(c) How she became such a good cook.
(d) If he will ever be able to bring the girl from school home for dinner.

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

7. 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.

8. In Part Two, Chapter 8, how does Jeremiah feel about waiting for class to end?
(a) He is nervous.
(b) He is angry.
(c) He is bored.
(d) He is impatient.

9. 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 bored in the class.
(c) He is embarrassed about being in a remedial class.
(d) He does not like the teacher.

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

11. When one of Jeremiah's white teammates starts annoying him, what does he wonder?
(a) If he can be transferred to another private school.
(b) If he should tell him to stop.
(c) What he is doing at Percy.
(d) If the boy can be expelled for what he has said.

12. 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.

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

14. What does Jeremiah admit to Carlton about Ellie?
(a) He has never thought about dating someone who is Jewish.
(b) He has never thought about dating someone younger than himself.
(c) He has never thought about dating a wealthy girl before.
(d) He has never thought about dating a white girl.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the black boys on Percy's basketball team call themselves?

2. Why does Anne call Ellie?

3. What does Jeremiah partially hope the white kids at school will think about him?

4. What does Jeremiah realize about the girl he had met that upsets him?

5. On what does Marion blame Ellie's desire to be on her own?

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