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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Ellie is very upset by the attitudes of others, to what does Miah tell her to compare it?
(a) Rain.
(b) Dirt.
(c) Fall leaves.
(d) Snow.

2. 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 tells him.
(c) He can see it in her eyes.
(d) She starts to cry.

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

4. 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 hopes it lasts forever.
(d) She believes it is doomed.

5. What white lie does Miah tell his father about how he spends his weekends?
(a) He is with his girlfriend.
(b) He is at basketball games.
(c) He is with friends from Percy.
(d) He is with his mother.

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

7. 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 were never in love to begin with.
(c) They love each other differently now.
(d) They never stopped loving each other, even though their marriage ended.

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

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

10. 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) A slow love.
(d) Plain love.

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

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

13. While in the car with his father, Miah thinks back to the day he and Ellie had been walking along Fifth Avenue and who had started taunting them?
(a) Two Black women.
(b) Police officers.
(c) Some white boys.
(d) A little boy.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Miah help with his basketball skills?

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

3. Miah’s father says that white people do not realize they are white until when?

4. What does Ellie think when her mother says that life would turn on her and set her down in some strange other place?

5. Soon after Miah and Ellie are dating, how does Miah feel about the morning they spent together at school?

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