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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does one woman mention, in Chapter 12, when Miah is introduced?
(a) How handsome he is.
(b) How much she already knows about him.
(c) How tall he is.
(d) How much he looks like his father.

3. 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) He had just been thinking about her.
(c) He had hoped she would find him.
(d) Nothing.

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

5. 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) Police officers.
(b) Some white boys.
(c) Two Black women.
(d) A little boy.

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

7. There is no reason for what kind of love, according to Anne?
(a) A slow love.
(b) Plain love.
(c) Quick-fix binge love.
(d) Marion-Edward 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 contact him.
(b) He should invite him over.
(c) He should forget him.
(d) He should visit him.

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

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

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

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

13. What treat does Jeremiah share with Ellie in Chapter 11?
(a) A cupcake.
(b) A snickers bar.
(c) A bag of gummy worms.
(d) A twinkie.

14. Who does Miah help with his basketball skills?
(a) Ellie.
(b) Kennedy.
(c) Carlton.
(d) Little Ray.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Ellie tell Jeremiah about her name?

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

4. 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?

5. How do Ellie and Jeremiah respond to the old ladies who give them an disapproving look in Chapter 11?

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