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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. Where does Ryan travel for his father's funeral?
(a) Sioux City, Iowa.
(b) San Francisco, California.
(c) Bakersfield, California.
(d) Norfolk, Virginia.

2. What sport do both Ryan and Adrian play in high school?
(a) Football.
(b) Squash.
(c) Tennis.
(d) Soccer.

3. Why does Adrian leave the home he was sharing with Valerie and Ryan in Chapter 9?
(a) He finds a new girlfriend and leaves to live with her.
(b) He has to go away for college.
(c) He is selling drugs.
(d) He gets angry and puts his fists through the wall of the house.

4. Which Keats poem is Ryan recording a musical adaptation of in Chapter 14?
(a) She Walks in Beauty.
(b) Ode to a Nightingale.
(c) Ode to a Grecian Urn.
(d) I Am Somebody.

5. Who is Ryan's aunt who is surprised when he expresses interest in opera?
(a) Michelle.
(b) Yvette.
(c) Deanna.
(d) Esther.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Valerie move herself and Ryan after leaving the trailer park in Chapter 11?

2. What does Ryan's voice teacher, Mark Oswald, ask him to do to help improve his sound in Chapter 14?

3. What is Ken Noda's ethnic background?

4. What does Ryan's grandmother, who is suffering from dementia in Chapter 10, call him?

5. Why does Ryan stop seeing the red-headed girl he meets in the beginning of Chapter 11?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Ryan join the Latin club and deliberately start making friends with white students in school when he is released from the juvenile detention center?

2. What surprises Noda about Ryan's level of skill when he first starts working with Ryan?

3. What does Brian Zeger, who runs the Met's training program, say is the real strength of Ryan's voice?

4. What do Ryan's music teachers at the Governor's School think of his voice when they first hear him sing?

5. Why did the famous opera singer Marian Anderson perform a concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1939?

6. Why did the child piano prodigy Ken Noda abruptly stop performing piano concerts?

7. What is the personal connection that helps Ryan get into the Virginia Governor's School for the Arts?

8. Why is Ryan's family very surprised when they hear he is seriously interested in opera?

9. What does winning the Met's competition for young singers mean for a young singer's career?

10. When does Ryan first settle on the idea that he would like to sing at the Met someday?

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