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

2. How does Ellie explain to her mother that her skipping class was not the worst thing she could do?
(a) She says she could run away instead.
(b) She says she could do drugs instead.
(c) She says that at least she did not leave her family.
(d) She says she could talk back to her teacher.

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

4. Soon after Miah and Ellie are dating, how does Miah feel about the morning they spent together at school?
(a) Miah was very nervous.
(b) This moment of him and Ellie had always been there and always would be.
(c) Miah could not believe how fast the morning went.
(d) This morning felt very odd.

5. How does Miah know that Ellie wants to go home and not go to his mother's for dinner in Chapter 20?
(a) She tells him.
(b) She starts to cry.
(c) He can see it in her eyes.
(d) She keeps looking away from him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Miah feels that, although his father loves him, what does he love more?

2. 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?

3. What does Miah think he should do when he thinks back on a cousin he has not seen in awhile?

4. 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?

5. What white lie does Ellie tell her mother about why she will be home late in Chapter 20?

Short Essay Questions

1. What upsets Ellie as she and Miah huddle outside the library?

2. What takes place under the maple tree in Central Park?

3. What leads to Ellie and Miah cutting class and heading to Central Park?

4. How does Miah's father respond when Miah tells him he spends his weekends in Manhattan with his Percy friends?

5. How does Chapter 14 end?

6. What realization does Miah come to regarding his father, when he enters his father's home in this section (Chapters 11-15)?

7. What does Miah's father say happened to his relationship with Nelia?

8. How does Ellie react when her mother finds out she skipped math class?

9. How does Ellie resond to Miah's request she come for dinner after practice?

10. How does Ellie react to her mother's conversation with her sister Susan?

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