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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. How do Jeremiah and Ellie end up in Central Park after they run into each other in the hallway?
2. What does Miah think he should do when he thinks back on a cousin he has not seen in awhile?
3. Of what does Ellie remind her mother regarding the holiday?
4. What season is it in Part Two, Chapter 13?
5. When Miah tells his father that the world has changed and is not so prejudiced, he knows what?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are the types of love Anne describes to Ellie?
2. What realization does Miah come to regarding his father, when he enters his father's home in this section (Chapters 11-15)?
3. What does Miah's father say happened to his relationship with Nelia?
4. How does Ellie feel about her mother learning about a boy in Ellie's life from Anne?
5. How does Miah's father respond when Miah tells him he spends his weekends in Manhattan with his Percy friends?
6. What do both Miah and his father say about the afterlife?
7. On the drive to East Hampton, what does Miah's father have to say about white people?
8. How does Miah find his father, when he enters the living room?
9. Why does Marion think Ellie skipped class?
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
Loneliness is a central idea in If You Come Softly. What has led to this feeling of loneliness? What is the balm for this pain? How does this influence the relationship between Ellie and Miah?
Essay Topic 2
If You Come Softly is a coming-of-age story. How does the reader know this? How does the growing up of the two main characters compare to the average teen? Explain. How can teenagers, and adults as well, relate to the maturity of the main characters and loss of the naiveté of childhood?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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