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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ellie feel about being a loner?
(a) She does not consider herself a loner.
(b) At times she wishes she was like other girls but is usually content on her own.
(c) She wishes she was like other girls, holding hands.
(d) She is always happiest on her own.

2. How does Carlton respond after Jeremiah describes his feelings for Ellie?
(a) Miah must be crazy.
(b) Miah must not know what love is.
(c) Miah must be in love.
(d) Miah must be obsessed.

3. 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.

4. What about Jeremiah catches Ellie's eye?
(a) His skin color.
(b) His voice and good looks.
(c) His expensive clothes.
(d) He height.

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

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

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

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

9. What does Jeremiah realize about the girl he had met that upsets him?
(a) She probably already has a boyfriend.
(b) She is too young for him.
(c) She is white like most of the other students at Percy.
(d) She most likely is not interested in him.

10. How does Ellie feel about not seeing Jeremiah again?
(a) Disappointed.
(b) Angry.
(c) Relieved.
(d) Nervous.

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

12. How does Ellie respond when her father asks about the boy from school?
(a) She is shy and embarrassed.
(b) She is relieved to hear he already knows.
(c) She is very upset with him for bringing it up.
(d) She is annoyed her mother mentioned it.

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

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

15. In Part Two, Chapter 9, what is Ellie doing as she watches the sunlight stream in the windows of her empty apartment?
(a) Going through her to-do list for the weekend.
(b) Listening to the answering machine.
(c) Thinking about her life.
(d) Wondering what her parents are up to.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Hazelton do to get Ellie and Jeremiah's attention?

2. Where does Jeremiah’s grandmother always tell him to sit?

3. How does Anne respond when Ellie mentions that Jeremiah is Black?

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

5. When had Jeremiah's mother who was a published writer, stop writing?

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