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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 the ability of her and her mother to grow close?
(a) With the help of a therapist, Ellie thinks they can grow close.
(b) With time, she is hopeful they can mend their relationship.
(c) Ellie has never had trust issues with her mother.
(d) The time has passed for them to grow close.

2. Of what does Ellie remind her mother regarding the holiday?
(a) They forgot to fast.
(b) They celebrated with everyone at their synagogue.
(c) They preferred it a small gathering and did not miss Susan and her family.
(d) They broke their fast at Wendy's.

3. As Ellie and Miah huddle together outside the library, who gives them a strange look?
(a) A librarian.
(b) A little girl.
(c) A group of white boys.
(d) A Black woman.

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

5. What season is it in Part Two, Chapter 13?
(a) Summer.
(b) Spring.
(c) Winter.
(d) Fall.

6. What do both Miah and his father hope happens when someone dies?
(a) They go someplace bigger and better.
(b) They are at peace.
(c) They are never forgotten.
(d) They go to Heaven.

7. Marion asked Ellie if skipping school was her way of showing what?
(a) Her willfulness.
(b) Her anger at her mother.
(c) Her dislike of her new school.
(d) Her independence.

8. How does Ellie remember the day she skipped math class?
(a) Fondly.
(b) Worriedly.
(c) She does not remember it.
(d) Sadly.

9. What is the first type of love Anne describes which she compares to investing in the stock market?
(a) Marion-Edward love.
(b) Quick-fix binge love.
(c) Perfect love.
(d) A slow love.

10. Miah feels that, although his father loves him, what does he love more?
(a) Money.
(b) Making movies.
(c) Fame.
(d) His new girlfriend.

11. What does Marion ask Ellie regarding her truancy?
(a) Why she hates math so much.
(b) Why she dislikes her new school.
(c) How she could be so disobedient.
(d) Why Marion and Ellie's father deserved this.

12. 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.

13. 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) Plain love.
(b) Perfect love.
(c) Quick-fix binge love.
(d) Marion-Edward love.

14. What does Miah hear outside the window in Chapter 12?
(a) Birds chirping.
(b) Sirens.
(c) His mother singing.
(d) Girls counting and a boy playing basketball.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose opinion does Miah wonder about regarding his parents' separation?

2. Jeremiah and Ellie have a deep conversation about showing what?

3. Why does Miah not tell Ellie who his parents are for so long?

4. In Part Two, Chapter 20, Ellie remembers the only other time she had been to Brooklyn. Where did she go?

5. What is Miah's response when his father asks why he does not see Miah as often in Chapter 19?

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