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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the kind of love that Anne describes which is when two people love each other early on but no longer do but stay together because they do not know how to be with anyone else?
(a) Quick-fix binge love.
(b) Marion-Edward love.
(c) Plain love.
(d) A slow love.

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

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

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

5. 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) Yes, many.
(c) No, definitely not.
(d) He truly, truly, hopes so.

6. What brings Ellie to Brooklyn for the first time with Miah?
(a) Miah has a basketball game.
(b) His mother is cooking them dinner.
(c) Miah wants to show her Grand Army Plaza.
(d) They are studying at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

7. What does Ellie tell Jeremiah about her name?
(a) She was given the same name as her grandmother.
(b) Her name is Elisha, but she prefers Ellie.
(c) She wishes more people would call her Elisha.
(d) She wishes she could legally change her name.

8. What does a kid run up to Ellie and Miah and ask if he can do?
(a) Interview them.
(b) Take their picture.
(c) Hang out with them.
(d) Borrow a pencil.

9. What kind of memories does Miah have of coming to the library?
(a) No.
(b) Sad.
(c) Few.
(d) Fond.

10. There is no reason for what kind of love, according to Anne?
(a) Marion-Edward love.
(b) A slow love.
(c) Quick-fix binge love.
(d) Plain love.

11. What kind of literature did Miah and his mother read at the library, when he was little?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Non-fiction.
(c) Graphic novels.
(d) Historical fiction.

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

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

14. In Chapter 11, what does Jeremiah tell Ellie to call him?
(a) Miah-man.
(b) Miah.
(c) Jeremy.
(d) My man.

15. How does Miah know that Ellie wants to go home and not go to his mother's for dinner in Chapter 20?
(a) She starts to cry.
(b) She tells him.
(c) She keeps looking away from him.
(d) He can see it in her eyes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Marion asked Ellie if skipping school was her way of showing what?

2. In Part Two, Chapter 19, Miah’s father tells him he is leaving for where for work in the morning?

3. Who does Miah help with his basketball skills?

4. How do Jeremiah and Ellie end up in Central Park after they run into each other in the hallway?

5. What are both Jeremiah and Ellie doing when Ellie sees him in the hallway in Chapter 11?

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