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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. Who ends up driving Marlee and JT to Sally's party?

2. What does Marlee tell JT about doing his math homework in Chapter 33?

3. What does Marlee's father buy her granny for Christmas?

4. What is Marlee's first idea that she comes up with to help Liz stay quiet in tense situations?

5. What is one of Marlee's fears that prevents her from feeling comfortable doing the thing Liz asks her to try for the first time in Chapter 36?

Short Essay Questions

1. What big news does Judy tell Marlee over Thanksgiving break and what does Marlee think about it?

2. What idea does Ms. Winthrop bring to the WEC that the group's leaders reject?

3. Why does Liz not understand why Marlee stopped liking JT?

4. How does Marlee feel about Liz's budding relationship with Curtis?

5. Why did Marlee feel so responsible for Betty Jean's son, Curtis's, arrest?

6. What idea does Marlee come up with to help Liz be quiet in tense situations?

7. Why is Marlee so upset when her mother suggests she tutor JT in math?

8. Why does Marlee ask her mother to come pick her up from Sally's roller-skating party?

9. What does Marlee's mother tell her about the origins of Marlee's name when she gives her the letter opener on her birthday?

10. What did Betty Jean tell Marlee about what the NAACP had advised Negroes about sending their children to private segregated schools?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When pro-segregation protesters rallied against integration in Little Rock in 1958, Marlee's father remembers that they caused terrible disruption and fear, largely because the local police did not deter or arrest them. But in 1959, Marlee and her father witness the police responding much more effectively to the segregationists, making many arrests and clearing the streets (286). Write an essay exploring why Levine chose to close the book with this scene and the tone she was likely trying to convey in doing so.

Essay Topic 2

When Marlee takes her first plane ride, she expects to be terrified but is delighted to discover she finds flying exhilarating. Write an essay exploring how the flight changes her view of herself and how she responds to her own fears.

Essay Topic 3

Throughout the novel, adults in Marlee's life who have first-hand knowledge of terrible racially motivated violence like lynchings and murders debate whether Marlee is old enough to hear their stories. Write an essay analyzing the effect these stories, when told to Marlee by her father and the members of the WEC, have on Marlee and on her decision to become a political activist.

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