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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are both Jeremiah and Ellie doing when Ellie sees him in the hallway in Chapter 11?

2. What does Marion ask Ellie regarding her truancy?

3. How does Ellie remember the day she skipped math class?

4. How does Marion find out that Ellie had skipped math class?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why had Miah not told Ellie about his famous parents earlier in their relationship?

4. How does Miah get out of having to spend time with his father's friends?

5. About what does Miah think while he is in his room at his father's home?

6. How does Miah suggest he and Ellie deal with the negative attitudes of others towards them?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Racism permeates the entire story and its characters. How is systemic racism a theme or central idea of If You Come Softly? How are many of the characters affected by it? How does it lead to the tragic ending of this story? What is the message the reader is to get regarding systemic racism?

Essay Topic 2

Race and culture are major concepts in If You Come Softly. How are they significant to this story? Is it possible for every reader to somehow relate to this? Why or why not? IS it possible for the story to change time periods and still be relevant? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Although the cultures, races, and religions of the two protagonists are different, they have much in common. What do they have in common? How is this significant to the story and the relationship between these two characters? How have they been influenced by their upbringing and found themselves in similar situations?

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