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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 new friend does Liz tell Marlee about in Chapter 33?

2. How does Betty Jean's and Marlee's relationship change after Marlee goes out of her way to help Betty Jean's son Curtis?

3. What does Marlee's father have to do to get Curtis out of jail?

4. What was Betty Jean's son Curtis falsely arrested for?

5. What does Marlee give to her mother before her mother speaks at the meeting in Chapter 42?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the reason Marlee's father gives when she asks him why he helped Curtis get out of jail?

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

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

4. What does Marlee tell her mother when her mother comes to pick her up from Sally's roller-skating party?

5. What problems does Liz tell Marlee she experiences once she has to attend the Negro school in her neighborhood?

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

7. How does JT react when Marlee finally tells him she will no longer do his math homework for him?

8. What does Red do at the Christmas parade that upsets Marlee?

9. How does Marlee's expectation of the plane ride her father gives the family compare with her actual experience of the journey?

10. What does Mrs. Dalton, JT's mother, tell the WEC women about why she is there helping the group?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did Levine's choice to tell the story solely from Marlee's point of view affect the audience's understanding of the book's themes? Write an essay explaining your answer.

Essay Topic 2

How does the rift between Mr. and Mrs. Dalton over racial issues seem different from the disagreements over racial issues that exist between Marlee's parents? Write an essay explaining your answer.

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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