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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part Two, Chapter 8, how does Jeremiah feel about waiting for class to end?
(a) He is angry.
(b) He is nervous.
(c) He is impatient.
(d) He is bored.

2. When does Jeremiah feel uncomfortable about his skin color?
(a) When he sees commercials on television.
(b) When he is with his white friends.
(c) When he steps out of his own community.
(d) All the time.

3. How does Ellie let Jeremiah know what her name is?
(a) She plays a guessing game with him.
(b) She whispers it to him.
(c) She carves it in the trunk of a tree.
(d) She writes it on her textbook.

4. On what does Marion blame Ellie's desire to be on her own?
(a) The fact she had been born much later after her siblings and got used to being on her own.
(b) Ellie's father is a bit of a recluse.
(c) Marion blames herself.
(d) Ellie's shyness.

5. In Part Two, Chapter 10, Jeremiah looks at the old photographs of him in the frames and finally what photograph?
(a) His mother and father on their wedding day.
(b) His mother as a young girl.
(c) Him and his mother and father.
(d) His mother in her wedding dress.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ellie remembers a time she and Anne had been in Central Park. What was Anne's reaction to a Black runner coming at them?

2. How does Anne respond when Ellie mentions that Jeremiah is Black?

3. How does Jeremiah feel now that his parents are separated?

4. What does Jeremiah do towards Ellie at the end of Chapter 7?

5. When Ellie's father comes home, what does she tell him?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Anne react when she finds out Jeremiah is Black?

2. How does Jeremiah feel about being Black when in his own community?

3. Why does Anne call Ellie?

4. Why does Jeremiah now attend Percy?

5. How do Ellie and Jeremiah first meet?

6. How do Jeremiah and his Brooklyn friends deal with racial issues?

7. About what do Carlton and Miah discuss on their walk home from school?

8. How does Ellie feel as she listens to the messages on the answering machine?

9. How is racism revealed in Ellie's own home in this section (Chapters 6-10)?

10. How does Jeremiah end up in Ellie's history class?

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