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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Miah’s father says that white people do not realize they are white until when?
(a) A white church is destroyed.
(b) They look in the mirror.
(c) A white man is attacked.
(d) They are someplace with a lot of Black people.

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

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

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

5. What season is it in Part Two, Chapter 13?
(a) Fall.
(b) Spring.
(c) Summer.
(d) Winter.

6. Whose opinion does Miah wonder about regarding his parents' separation?
(a) Ellie’s.
(b) His deceased grandmother's.
(c) His mother’s.
(d) Carlton’s.

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

8. 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) Plain love.
(b) Marion-Edward love.
(c) Quick-fix binge love.
(d) A slow love.

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

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

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

12. How does Ellie feel that Anne shares with Marion that she and Ellie had gotten into an argument over a boy?
(a) Very angry.
(b) Happy.
(c) Irritated.
(d) Relieved.

13. How does Marion respond to Susan's call in Chapter 13?
(a) She cries.
(b) She is joyful.
(c) She tries to make her feel guilty.
(d) She is surprised.

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

15. What does Miah realize about his relationship with his father?
(a) He misses how close and and his father 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) It is not as strong as it used to be.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Who does Miah find in the living room of his father's home in Chapter 12?

3. What kind of literature did Miah and his mother read at the library, when he was little?

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

5. In Chapter 11, what does Jeremiah tell Ellie to call him?

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