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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. How do Ellie and Jeremiah respond to the old ladies who give them an disapproving look in Chapter 11?

3. What is Miah's father's response when Miah asks him if he thinks that maybe there is at least one white person who is different?

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

5. What does Miah’s father say about his relationship with Nelia?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. How do other kids at school react to Ellie and Miah being a couple?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do Jeremiah and Ellie feel about themselves? How do they both see a kindred spirit in the eyes of the other? How does this finding of themselves in the other influence their feelings towards each other, as the story progresses?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

How does the portion of the poem in Part 2, Chapter 25 relate to this story and its two protagonists? What is the connection of this poem and the portion Miah recites earlier in this novel? What role does it play in the story?

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