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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why couldn't Lou Ann's mom sing to her?
(a) She lost her voice.
(b) She didn't like to sing.
(c) She was deaf.
(d) She didn't know the words to any songs.

2. What did Lou Ann think her parents were pretending to be when she was 8?
(a) Deaf.
(b) Parents.
(c) Handicapped.
(d) Adults.

3. How many years had Lou Ann's paternal grandfather's business been open in 1927?
(a) 15 years.
(b) 18 years.
(c) 16 years.
(d) 17 years.

4. Why did it take awhile for Lou Ann's paternal grandparents to realize her father was deaf?
(a) He acted like a normal baby.
(b) He responded when she talked to him.
(c) He could talk.
(d) He gave mixed signals.

5. What did researchers believe was the first sense that a fetus gained?
(a) Seeing.
(b) Smell.
(c) Touch.
(d) Hearing.

6. How many doses of meningitis medicine did Lou Ann's mom receive?
(a) 4.
(b) 6.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

7. How far did Lou Ann's dad have to drive to see her mom?
(a) 4 hours.
(b) 2 ½ hours.
(c) 3 hours.
(d) 3 1/2 hours.

8. How did Lou Ann's father break his nose?
(a) High school track.
(b) High school football.
(c) High school basketball.
(d) High school wrestling.

9. How did Lou Ann's family view her new school?
(a) High brow and snotty.
(b) Scary.
(c) With excitement.
(d) Too far away from them.

10. What did Lou Ann have the most of as a child?
(a) Responsibility.
(b) Closeness with her parents.
(c) Contact with the world.
(d) Closeness with the other adults in her family.

11. What was Lou Ann scared of at college?
(a) Being a small fish in a big pond.
(b) Not fitting in.
(c) Not understanding the assignments.
(d) Not being well prepared.

12. What was Lou Ann going to school for?
(a) Teacher for the deaf.
(b) To learn sign language.
(c) To become a lawyer for the deaf.
(d) Intrepretor.

13. On what street was the church that Lou Ann's parents were married in?
(a) Broad.
(b) Wadsworth.
(c) Colfax.
(d) Main.

14. What advantage did Lou Ann's parents have that most new parents didn't?
(a) She was a very easy baby.
(b) They couldn't hear her cry.
(c) They had more family to help them.
(d) They had more devices to assist them with her care.

15. In what year did the depression hit Montpelier, Indiana?
(a) 1908.
(b) 1909.
(c) 1907.
(d) 1910.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Lou Ann call deafness?

2. What type of thinking was Lou Ann looking forward to breaking away from at college?

3. What was Grandma Nellie's main job in her husband's business?

4. What did Lou Ann swallow when she was 2?

5. What was the main thing that made Lou Ann different than her parents?

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