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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. When one of Jeremiah's white teammates starts annoying him, what does he wonder?
(a) What he is doing at Percy.
(b) If the boy can be expelled for what he has said.
(c) If he should tell him to stop.
(d) If he can be transferred to another private school.

2. Why is Ellie's father absent from dinner, as usual?
(a) He is at an office party.
(b) He is a doctor.
(c) He lives across the street in another apartment.
(d) He is in his home office eating dinner alone.

3. How does Jeremiah remember reacting to seeing his father with Lois Ann, prior to knowing about their affair?
(a) He frowned at them.
(b) He laughed at them.
(c) He smiled at them.
(d) He was curious about them.

4. How does Jeremiah feel now that his parents are separated?
(a) Pressure to pick between them.
(b) He feels nothing.
(c) Deep sadness for the loss of his family.
(d) Relief.

5. Jeremiah remembers flying on an airplane as a small child to visit his grandmother where?
(a) In the South.
(b) In the Northwest.
(c) In the Midwest.
(d) In the West.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mr. Hazelton's response when Jeremiah replies that the amendment is the right to silence?

2. In Part Two, Chapter 8, how does Jeremiah feel about waiting for class to end?

3. As Jeremiah watches his mother prepare dinner, what does he wonder?

4. In Part Two, Chapter 10, Jeremiah looks at the old photographs of him in the frames and finally what photograph?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is Carlton's response to Miah when asked about being biracial?

4. What old routine do Ellie and her father discuss?

5. What kind of person is Jeremiah looking for?

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

7. What is the cause of Ellie's inability to fully love and trust her mother, Marion?

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

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

10. How do Ellie and Jeremiah first meet?

(see the answer keys)

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