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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 Miah do once he is in his room at his father's home in Chapter 12?
(a) He stares out the window.
(b) He falls asleep.
(c) He lays on his bed and daydreams about Ellie.
(d) He begins to study.

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

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

4. What does Miah hear outside the window in Chapter 12?
(a) Birds chirping.
(b) His mother singing.
(c) Girls counting and a boy playing basketball.
(d) Sirens.

5. What do both Miah and his father hope happens when someone dies?
(a) They are never forgotten.
(b) They go someplace bigger and better.
(c) They go to Heaven.
(d) They are at peace.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Miah realize about his relationship with his father?

2. How does Ellie feel that Anne shares with Marion that she and Ellie had gotten into an argument over a boy?

3. How does Ellie explain to her mother that her skipping class was not the worst thing she could do?

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

5. What can Ellie not believe about Brooklyn?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ellie feel about her mother learning about a boy in Ellie's life from Anne?

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

3. What do both Miah and his father say about the afterlife?

4. How does Chapter 14 end?

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

6. What are the types of love Anne describes to Ellie?

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

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

9. How does Ellie feel when she finds Jeremiah in the hallway?

10. How does Miah find his father, when he enters the living room?

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