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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Soon after Miah and Ellie are dating, how does Miah feel about the morning they spent together at school?
(a) Miah was very nervous.
(b) This morning felt very odd.
(c) This moment of him and Ellie had always been there and always would be.
(d) Miah could not believe how fast the morning went.

3. What does Miah’s father say about his relationship with Nelia?
(a) They love each other differently now.
(b) They never stopped loving each other, even though their marriage ended.
(c) They were outgrowing each other when he fell in love with Lois Ann.
(d) They were never in love to begin with.

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

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

6. What can Ellie not believe about Brooklyn?
(a) How different it is.
(b) How many trees there are.
(c) How close it is.
(d) How far away it is.

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

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

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

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

11. In Part Two, Chapter 19, Miah’s father tells him he is leaving for where for work in the morning?
(a) Paris.
(b) Florida.
(c) L.A.
(d) East Hampton.

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

13. When Ellie calls Jeremiah's name, and he turns to look at her, what does he say?
(a) He is having a hard time studying these days.
(b) Nothing.
(c) He had just been thinking about her.
(d) He had hoped she would find him.

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

15. How does Ellie explain to her mother that her skipping class was not the worst thing she could do?
(a) She says that at least she did not leave her family.
(b) She says she could run away instead.
(c) She says she could talk back to her teacher.
(d) She says she could do drugs instead.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Ellie when Anne finally calls?

2. What does Miah hear outside the window in Chapter 12?

3. When Miah tells his father that the world has changed and is not so prejudiced, he knows what?

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

5. How does Ellie remember the day she skipped math class?

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