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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. What was the most important thing Lou Ann bought to take to college?
(a) Car.
(b) Thesaurus.
(c) Dictionary.
(d) Typewriter

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

3. What physical education course did Lou Ann take at college?
(a) Softball.
(b) Golf.
(c) Volleyball.
(d) Basketball.

4. What did Lou Ann's parents like to do on Saturday nights?
(a) Go to the deaf club.
(b) Go out to dinner.
(c) Go to see silent movies.
(d) Go out with friends.

5. Where did Lou Ann teach her first sign language class?
(a) New York Society for the Deaf.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Deaf and Hard of Hearing Society.
(d) The Children's Aid Society.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what city did Lou Ann get an editorial job at in September 1976?

2. Why didn't children of deaf parents talk about their experiences?

3. What was Uncle Garnel's wife always asking Lou Ann to teach her?

4. Who was Lou Ann trying to write an article for?

5. What color did Lou Ann always wear on Christmas as a child?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Lou Ann feel that her parents were so often looked down on?

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

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

4. What was Lou Ann's third job while she lived in New York?

5. What did Lou Ann do the summer before college?

6. What did Lou Ann's parents do for a social life when she was a child?

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

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

9. How was Lou Ann's exterior attitude colliding with her interior attitude?

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

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