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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose opinion of his dating a white girl is Miah curious?
(a) Strangers.
(b) His friends from the neighborhood.
(c) His father.
(d) His teammates.

2. Where is Ellie when Anne finally calls?
(a) With Jeremiah.
(b) In the shower.
(c) Asleep.
(d) At school.

3. In Part Two, Chapter 20, Ellie remembers the only other time she had been to Brooklyn. Where did she go?
(a) To see a Brooklyn Nets game.
(b) To play at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum.
(c) To wander Prospect Park.
(d) To visit an elderly aunt in Flatbush.

4. What is the kind of love in which a person jumps from one relationship to another without stopping to analyze the relationship he or she just got out of?
(a) Marion-Edward love.
(b) Quick-fix binge love.
(c) Perfect love.
(d) Plain love.

5. What white lie does Ellie tell her mother about why she will be home late in Chapter 20?
(a) She is going to Brooklyn to visit her aunt.
(b) She has play rehearsal.
(c) She is going out to dinner with friends.
(d) She is staying late at school.

6. Who does Miah find in the living room of his father's home in Chapter 12?
(a) His father, Lois, and two other couples.
(b) Lois and another couple.
(c) His father and another gentleman.
(d) His father and mother.

7. Why does Ellie finally call her mother, "Ma"?
(a) Her mother threatens to ground her if she continues to call her Marion.
(b) Ellie's father says she should stop calling her mother Marion.
(c) She is tired of calling her Marion.
(d) Marion finally calls Ellie by her nickname.

8. What treat does Jeremiah share with Ellie in Chapter 11?
(a) A bag of gummy worms.
(b) A twinkie.
(c) A snickers bar.
(d) A cupcake.

9. What does Ellie think to herself regarding her relationship with Jeremiah at the end of Chapter 15?
(a) She hopes it lasts forever.
(b) Take this moment and run.
(c) She is unsure about it.
(d) She believes it is doomed.

10. What is Miah's response when his father asks why he does not see Miah as often in Chapter 19?
(a) He does not want to see his father.
(b) He has a lot of schoolwork, and it is quieter at his mother’s.
(c) He is too busy with his new girlfriend.
(d) He is often at school for basketball practice.

11. What does Miah’s father remind him about white neighborhoods?
(a) To never go in them.
(b) To not run in them.
(c) To always be with a white person.
(d) To avoid them, if possible.

12. In Part Two, Chapter 11, how does Ellie find Jeremiah in the hallway?
(a) Sitting in a corner studying.
(b) Sitting on a bench reading a book.
(c) Cleaning out his locker.
(d) With his forehead pressed against a window.

13. How do Jeremiah and Ellie end up in Central Park after they run into each other in the hallway?
(a) They go to the park during their lunch period.
(b) They go on a field trip.
(c) They go to the park after school.
(d) They decide to skip school.

14. What does Ellie think when her mother says that life would turn on her and set her down in some strange other place?
(a) Ellie believes that she has been set down already in another place, but that this new place is perfect.
(b) Her mother already turned on her, so what could be worse.
(c) She believes her life will never change.
(d) She believes she has already seen the worst, so any change would be welcome.

15. Anne says that if Ellie finds what kind of love, she will know it when she finds it?
(a) Marion-Edward love.
(b) A slow love.
(c) Perfect love.
(d) Plain love.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Marion respond to Susan's call in Chapter 13?

2. What does Miah do once he is in his room at his father's home in Chapter 12?

3. What is the first type of love Anne describes which she compares to investing in the stock market?

4. In Chapter 12, what does Miah’s father want him to do?

5. How does Ellie react when she learns who Miah's parents are?

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