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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Lou Ann make her first phone call home from college?
(a) At Thanksgiving.
(b) At Christmas.
(c) During midterms.
(d) At Halloween.

2. Why didn't children of deaf parents talk about their experiences?
(a) They didn't want to be viewed as freaks.
(b) They felt embarrased.
(c) They felt sad and frustrated.
(d) They felt that to do so would betray their parents.

3. What did Lou Ann get rid of by spewing her emotions?
(a) Responsibilities.
(b) Feeling of rejection.
(c) Anger.
(d) Guilt.

4. Why was Lou Ann's article not sounding good?
(a) She didn't know how to word it.
(b) She didn't want to explain deafness.
(c) She didn't want to make deaf people sound stupid.
(d) She was nervous writing it.

5. What did Lou Ann's friend encourage her to do regarding the article she was writing about deafness?
(a) Research deafness.
(b) Let down her guard.
(c) Write down what she knew.
(d) Interview her parents.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the main entertainment in Lou Ann's town?

2. Who was the editor-in-chief at Lou Ann's new job?

3. Where did most of the people in Lou Ann's neighborhood work?

4. Where did the people that Lou Ann spent two weeks with every summer live?

5. What was Lou Ann's mom president of?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Lou Ann feel when she received a letter at college from her Aunt Imogene?

2. What was Lou Ann's second job while she lived in New York?

3. How did Lou Ann resolve her feelings of guilt?

4. What was Christmas like when Lou Ann was a child?

5. How did Lou Ann feel about the work she had to do at Harvard?

6. What was the money situation like when Lou Ann was a child?

7. How did Lou Ann's views toward her interpreting work change over time?

8. What was the Nasty Homicides gang?

9. How did Lou Ann's experience with Tyrone impact her?

10. Why was it so important to Lou Ann that her father join the Masons?

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