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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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 talk back to her teacher.
(c) She says she could do drugs instead.
(d) She says she could run away instead.

4. Why does Susan call in Chapter 13?
(a) To see what is going on with Anne.
(b) To apologize for not making it home for Yom Kippur.
(c) To gush about her children.
(d) To check in on Ellie and her new school.

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

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

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

8. What does Miah know about his feelings for Ellie, in comparison to his father's feelings towards his mother?
(a) He would never outgrow Ellie.
(b) They would grow apart.
(c) He never loved her in the first place.
(d) He would probably outgrow her.

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

10. When Miah tells his father that the world has changed and is not so prejudiced, he knows what?
(a) His father is wrong.
(b) He and his father are both right.
(c) He is right.
(d) His father is right.

11. Why does Miah not tell Ellie who his parents are for so long?
(a) He keeps forgetting to bring it up.
(b) He is embarrassed.
(c) He wants her to like him for him and not his famous parents.
(d) He does not like his parents.

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

13. On whom does Marion blame Ellie's skipping class?
(a) Ellie’s friends.
(b) Ellie.
(c) The school.
(d) The boy.

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

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 keeps looking away from him.
(b) She starts to cry.
(c) She tells him.
(d) He can see it in her eyes.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Ellie feel that Anne shares with Marion that she and Ellie had gotten into an argument over a boy?

3. In Part Two, Chapter 12, when Miah enters his father’s home, what is he wondering?

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

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

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