WorksheetsIf You Come Softly-Chapters 1-5
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 8mins
How can Jeremiah tell he is Black? (Chapter 1)
By the way people tease and taunt him.
By his skill on the basketball court.
By the way he looks in a mirror.
By the way the sun feels on his skin.
When does Jeremiah feel uncomfortable about his skin color? (Chapter 1)
All the time.
When he steps out of his own community.
When he sees commercials on television.
When he is with his white friends.
Jeremiah remembers flying on an airplane as a small child to visit his grandmother where? (Chapter 1)
In the Northwest.
In the South.
In the West
In the Midwest.
Where does Jeremiah’s grandmother always tell him to sit? (Chapter 1)
In the shade
In the air conditioning.
In the sun.
In the back.
What does Jeremiah’s father call him, because he is Black? (Chapter 1)
A warrior.
A ninja.
A panther.
A loser.
What about Jeremiah catches Ellie's eye? (Chapter 2)
His height.
His expensive clothes.
His skin color.
His voice and good looks.
How does Ellie feel about being a loner? (Chapter 2)
She wishes she was like other girls, holding hands.
She is always happiest on her own.
At times she wishes she was like other girls but is usually content on her own.
She does not consider herself a loner.
Why is Ellie's father absent from dinner, as usual? (Chapter 2)
He is in his home office eating dinner alone.
He is a doctor.
He lives across the street in another apartment.
He is at an office party.
How is Ellie affected by Marion’s leaving? (Chapter 2)
She is not affected by it.
She is occasionally upset about her mother leaving.
It makes it difficult for Ellie to love and trust her.
She is no longer affected by it, as she now trusts her mother to never leave again.
How does Jeremiah feel now that his parents are separated? (Chapter 3)
Deep sadness for the loss of his family.
Relief.
Pressure to pick between them.
He feels nothing.
As Jeremiah watches his mother prepare dinner, what does he wonder? (Chapter 3)
How she became such a good cook.
How his father could ever choose to leave her for someone else.
If he will ever be able to bring the girl from school home for dinner.
If he could ever be as good a cook as her.
When did Jeremiah's mother, who was a published writer, stop writing? (Chapter 3)
When she returned to teaching and lecturing full time.
When his father left.
When she had earned enough to live off of the books she had written.
When she was pregnant with Jeremiah.
What does Jeremiah hope the white kids at school will think about him? (Chapter 3)
That he got accepted into the school because of his intelligence.
That is the famous Norman Roselind's son.
That he is on scholarship.
That he is the writer Nelia Roselind's son.
How does Anne respond when Ellie mentions that Jeremiah is Black? (Chapter 4)
She doesn't care that he is black.
She is angry.
She is shocked and concerned.
She is surprised and excited.
Who are the other two Black players on Percy's basketball team? (Chapter 5)
Johnson and Jackson.
Rayshon and Kennedy.
Michaels and John.
Miah and Elisha.
When one of Jeremiah's white teammates starts annoying him, what does he wonder? (Chapter 5)
If he should tell him to stop.
If the boy can be expelled for what he has said.
If he can be transferred to another private school.
What he is doing at Percy.
