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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Miah think he should do when he thinks back on a cousin he has not seen in awhile?
(a) He should invite him over.
(b) He should contact him.
(c) He should forget him.
(d) He should visit him.

2. What does Miah realize about his relationship with his father?
(a) It is not as strong as it used to be.
(b) He is not interested in having a relationship with his father.
(c) He has spent very little time alone with his father.
(d) He misses how close and and his father used to be.

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

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

5. 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) Quick-fix binge love.
(c) Perfect love.
(d) Marion-Edward love.

6. What is Miah's father's response when Miah asks him if he thinks that maybe there is at least one white person who is different?
(a) He does not think so.
(b) No, definitely not.
(c) Yes, many.
(d) He truly, truly, hopes so.

7. What does Miah's father think when Miah says he sometimes thinks he hears his grandmother whispering in his ear that she is good where she is?
(a) He thinks Miah needs a shrink.
(b) He thinks Miah is crazy.
(c) He does not think it is crazy at all.
(d) He knows Miah is sentimental.

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

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

10. What does Miah do once he is in his room at his father's home in Chapter 12?
(a) He lays on his bed and daydreams about Ellie.
(b) He stares out the window.
(c) He falls asleep.
(d) He begins to study.

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

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

13. What concerns Marion regarding Susan in Chapter 13?
(a) She misses her family very much.
(b) She may not come for Hanukkah either.
(c) She would be visiting more frequently.
(d) She would never call back.

14. 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 wander Prospect Park.
(c) To play at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum.
(d) To visit an elderly aunt in Flatbush.

15. In Part Two, Chapter 17, Miah’s father drives Miah where?
(a) Westchester.
(b) East Hampton.
(c) Harlem.
(d) The Upper West Side.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a kid run up to Ellie and Miah and ask if he can do?

2. Why does Ellie finally call her mother, "Ma"?

3. What can Ellie not believe about Brooklyn?

4. In Part Two, Chapter 16, what is the weather like when Ellie and Miah meet at the library?

5. What white lie does Miah tell his father about how he spends his weekends?

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