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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sarah want to show Orin when she goes into the kitchen with him?
(a) A machine that does 11 things.
(b) The phone.
(c) The TV.
(d) The oven.

2. Who does Orin want to file a claim against according to his lawsuit aspirations?
(a) The school.
(b) James, specifically.
(c) Sarah.
(d) Mr. Franklin.

3. What does Klein try to do in order to impress Orin and Sarah during their next meeting?
(a) She doesn't talk loudly.
(b) She tries to sign some words.
(c) She brings a translator.
(d) She writes down her side of the conversation.

4. Sarah thinks James wants her to be a deaf person so he can change her into a ___________ person.
(a) Quiet.
(b) Hearing.
(c) Normal.
(d) Loud.

5. Orin tells Sarah that he wants her ____________ as the complaint begins.
(a) To divorce James.
(b) To go away.
(c) To write a book about their plight.
(d) With him.

6. Orin says that Sarah would be an asset because she is deaf, __________ deaf.
(a) Utterly.
(b) Amazingly.
(c) Completely.
(d) Pure.

7. What is smoking as it comes out of the stove after the buzzer goes off for a long period of time?
(a) Bread.
(b) Roast.
(c) Stew.
(d) Casserole.

8. Where are James and Sarah when the scene changes away from the card party?
(a) The restaurant.
(b) School.
(c) A park.
(d) Home.

9. At the end of the night, James says that he feels everyone is speaking in some far-northern dialect of __________.
(a) Spanish.
(b) German.
(c) Hungarian.
(d) Swiss.

10. What does Orin compliment Sarah on when they are reminiscing about their past together?
(a) Her marriage.
(b) Her signing.
(c) Her speech.
(d) Her apartment.

11. Orin points out that the speech that Klein has written for Sarah is what all ______________ say.
(a) Women.
(b) Deaf people.
(c) Hearing people.
(d) Handicapped people.

12. James asks Sarah whether she's afraid that having fun in the hearing world means she will have her angry deaf person's _________ revoked.
(a) Attitude.
(b) Reputation.
(c) License.
(d) Permission.

13. The lawyer admits to Orin that she never has heard of discrimination against the __________.
(a) Teachers.
(b) School.
(c) Hearing.
(d) Deaf.

14. James says that if Sarah feels she's not strong enough to juggle both worlds, then _________.
(a) He is.
(b) She can just give up.
(c) It's okay too.
(d) Then she doesn't have to.

15. Orin points out that the school is supposed to exist for the ___________ of its students.
(a) Education.
(b) Leadership.
(c) Benefit.
(d) Advancement.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the world that Orin points out that he and Sarah do not like to use when referring to Sarah particularly?

2. What does James say is the name of the caller, though it is really Orin and he corrects himself as he hands the call to Sarah?

3. Sarah points out to the lawyer that she is not ___________ being deaf.

4. How does Sarah do during her first game of cards with the rest of the group?

5. Who has to translate the phone call so that Sarah can talk on the phone as well?

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