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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 is the name Marlee uses when she telephones Liz?

2. What does Sally say she did with her hairbrush that she loaned to Liz?

3. What is Liz's little brother's name?

4. How does Liz decide to give Marlee her phone number so no one but they will know what it is?

5. How does Judy react to her parents' plan for her to continue school?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Marlee's fear of jumping off the high dive in Chapter 1 represent?

2. Why does Marlee decide to stay in Mr. Harding's room instead of going to the cafeteria for lunch after Liz leaves school?

3. How does Marlee find out what really happened to Liz that prevents her from coming back to school?

4. How does Liz act when the colored students walk into the library where she and Marlee are preparing for their history project?

5. What does Ms. Taylor tell Marlee about the reason that Liz is not at school on the day they are supposed to present their history project?

6. What is Marlee's first impression of Liz when she meets her on the first day of school?

7. Why does Marlee decide to give Liz a chance and agree to work on a school history project with her instead of with her usual partner Sally?

8. How does Marlee decide to try to get a message to Liz after Liz can not come back to school?

9. How do Marlee's parents react when they find out that Liz had been passing?

10. Why does Marlee choose to remain friends with Sally, even though Sally sometimes makes fun of her and mistreats her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Marlee develops a special relationship with Betty Jean, her family's Negro maid. Write an essay analyzing when and why Marlee begins confiding in Betty Jean in a way she can not seem to do with her own family members.

Essay Topic 2

In the beginning of the book, Marlee's mother Maurine initially opposes school integration, but by the novel's end she actively supports it. Write an essay analyzing the evolution of Marlee's mother's ideas about integration and racial equality.

Essay Topic 3

When Liz is forced to attend an all-Negro school after she is caught trying to "pass" as white at Marlee's school, the Negro students treat her badly. Write an essay explaining the reasons why the Negro students at Liz's school treat her the way they do.

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