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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 brings Ellie to Brooklyn for the first time with Miah?

2. How do Jeremiah and Ellie end up in Central Park after they run into each other in the hallway?

3. What does Miah do once he is in his room at his father's home in Chapter 12?

4. 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?

5. Why does Miah not tell Ellie who his parents are for so long?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Miah's father respond when Miah tells him he spends his weekends in Manhattan with his Percy friends?

2. Why does Marion think Ellie skipped class?

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

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

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

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

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

8. How does Ellie describe her first visit to Brooklyn?

9. On the drive to East Hampton, what does Miah's father have to say about white people?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The story ends with Ellie preparing for high school graduation and a future at a college of her choice but without the excitement of her peers. Unlike Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet" she does not die alongside Jeremiah, but how, in some ways is she like Juliet? How might she resemble Maria from "West Side Story?" Does she have more hope for her future than these two women? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Miah and Ellie have a serious heart to heart as they skip school. What do they discuss? How do they react to each other's stories? What is the significance of this first serious conversation? How does this conversation guide the characters and the plot of the story?

Essay Topic 3

The relationship between parent and child is important to If You Come Softly. What is revealed about both parents and children? How does this affect the parent-child relationship? Is this universal? Why or why not?

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