If You Come Softly Ch 5-8

On their first day of practice, what did Rayshon lean over and whisper to Jeremiah?

• Just call us the three black stooges

• Just call us the three black musketeers

• Just call me whenever you need to

• Just call her Jeremiah!

What did Jeremiah lie to his friends about?

• Being a good basketball player

• His mom being a famous author

• His dad being a famous filmmaker

• His parents being seperated

Why was Elle so smitten about Jeremiah's eye color?

• Because they were the same color as hers

• Because she had never seen someone with almost green eyes before

• His eyes matched his favorite pair of sneakers

• Because she had never seen eyes so light on a black person.

What happened when Elle cute through the park at Seventy-Second Street?

• She lost her necklace

• A mugger stole her necklace

• She bumped smack into a black guy

• She realized that she could never be with Jeremiah

What symbolism reappeared at the start of chapter 7?

• The Star of David

• The rain

• Blackness

• Basketball

How did Jeremiah end up in class with Elle?

• He found out what class she was in so he submitted a transfer request

• He had always been in the class, he just skipped all of the time

• The school had him in the wrong history class at first because they assumed he needed remedial history.

• He snuck in to see her because he heard what class she was in.

Where does Jeremiah run into Carlton?

• At Percy during dismissal

• In Brooklyn as he was walking home from school

• At the basketball court afterschool

• At his house

Why did running into Carlton make Jeremiah think about Elle?

• Because Carlton is bi-racial with a white mother

• Because Carlton looked like Elle

• Because Carlton knows Elle from Percy

• Because Carlton is white

What was Jeremiah referring to in Chapter 8 when he said, "well, which is the enemy's homeland and which one is my own?"

• NYC and the south

• Percy & Tech

• His father's house and his mother's house

• Being with Elle or with a black girl

Who was the first person Jeremiah told about Elle?

• Rayshon

• Carlton

• His dad

• Kennedy