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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. Jeremiah and Ellie have a deep conversation about showing what?
2. What is the kind of love in which a person jumps from one relationship to another without stopping to analyze the relationship he or she just got out of?
3. Miah reminds Ellie that the only way the racism they encounter as a couple would go away would be when?
4. 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?
5. In Part Two, Chapter 16, what is the weather like when Ellie and Miah meet at the library?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Miah's father say happened to his relationship with Nelia?
2. How does Miah get out of having to spend time with his father's friends?
3. Why had Miah not told Ellie about his famous parents earlier in their relationship?
4. How does Ellie resond to Miah's request she come for dinner after practice?
5. What are the memories Miah has of the library on Fifth Avenue?
6. What takes place under the maple tree in Central Park?
7. How does Miah suggest he and Ellie deal with the negative attitudes of others towards them?
8. About what does Miah think while he is in his room at his father's home?
9. What do both Miah and his father say about the afterlife?
10. What realization does Miah come to regarding his father, when he enters his father's home in this section (Chapters 11-15)?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Frequently the author mentions rain or sun. What is the connection between the weather and the main characters and events in If You Come Softly? Why might the author have decided to create this relationship? How does noting the weather influence the tone of the book? How does this affect the reader?
Essay Topic 3
How do Ellie and Jeremiah feel about their relationship? What can be learned from Jeremiah's and Ellie's attitude about their relationship? What message is the reader supposed to get from this relationship?
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