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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. Who greets Ellie as she enters her Upper West Side building?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her mother.
(c) The doorman.
(d) Jeremiah.

2. Jeremiah wants someone who can understand what about him?
(a) The loneliness he feels inside.
(b) His love-hate relationship with basketball.
(c) How different he feels from everyone else.
(d) The issues he has with his parents.

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

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

5. Ellie remembers a time she and Anne had been in Central Park. What was Anne's reaction to a Black runner coming at them?
(a) She screamed.
(b) She started laughing.
(c) She called the police.
(d) She ran the other direction.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ellie feel about being a loner?

2. Who are the other two Black players on Percy's basketball team?

3. How long has Lois Ann been Jeremiah's neighbor across the street?

4. Where does Jeremiah’s grandmother always tell him to sit?

5. What does Ellie wonder about Anne's reaction to the jogger in the park?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Peter treat Jeremiah?

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

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

7. How does Jeremiah feel regarding his new Black teammates?

8. How does Jeremiah feel about his time in history class with Ellie?

9. How does Jeremiah feel about his new teammates?

10. How does Jeremiah reveal his intelligence in his first day in history class?

(see the answer keys)

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