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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens just before Mrs. Potts drops the microphone to the Phonic Ear on the ground?
(a) He gets the microphone tangled in his violin strings.
(b) He gets the microphone tangled in his beard.
(c) He gets the microphone tangled.
(d) He gets the microphone tangled in his spiral notebook.

2. What is Cece's response when the girl across the street invites her to help make "dirt soup" (121)?
(a) Cece says she does not want to get dirty.
(b) Cece says the girl is immature.
(c) Cece adamantly refuses, but does not provide a reason.
(d) Cece agrees.

3. What adjective does Cece use to describe the summer she and Martha spend together?
(a) Awesome.
(b) Terrible.
(c) Boring.
(d) Interesting.

4. In what month does Cece receive a letter stating who her fifth grade teacher will be?
(a) August.
(b) July.
(c) June.
(d) September.

5. Cece calls the floor of what room "the Hardest Surface in the Known Universe" (171)?
(a) The gym.
(b) The nurse's office.
(c) The cafeteria.
(d) The science lab.

6. Who is Cece's physical education teacher?
(a) Mr. Potts.
(b) Mrs. Lufton.
(c) Miss Garcia.
(d) Mrs. Sinklemann.

7. How does Cece react to the destruction of the present from her father?
(a) She hits the person who had broken the present.
(b) She tells the destroyer of the present that she does not care.
(c) She begins to cry.
(d) She screams.

8. What realization does Cece come to about Mike on the morning of the first day of being in the same class with him?
(a) She realizes that he likes her back.
(b) She realizes that he does not know that she has a hearing impairment.
(c) She realizes that he is not as handsome as she had thought.
(d) She realizes that he has never seen her Phonic Ear.

9. What does Martha actually do when Cece goes over to show Martha her eye patch?
(a) She vomits.
(b) She cries.
(c) She hugs Cece.
(d) She screams.

10. What happens to end the friendship between Cece and the neighbor girl with whom she used to watch The Monkees?
(a) The girl's mother forbids the girl to play with Cece.
(b) Cece moves away.
(c) The girl moves away.
(d) Cece's mother forbids Cece to play with the girl.

11. When Cece's eyesight begins to go blurry, to what cause does she attribute the change?
(a) New contact lenses.
(b) Love.
(c) Glaucoma.
(d) A need for eyeglasses.

12. When Cece's mother is on the phone with the person Cece delightedly thinks is Martha, with whom is her mother actually speaking?
(a) Ginny.
(b) Laura.
(c) Sarah.
(d) Ashley.

13. What happens the first time Martha speaks to Mike?
(a) Mike offers to let her use his trampoline.
(b) Mike asks her on a date.
(c) Mike tells her to leave him alone.
(d) Mike turns his back on her and walks away.

14. What adjective does Cece use to describe the way she feels without her Phonic Ear while it is in the shop for repairs?
(a) Naked.
(b) Light.
(c) Clumsy.
(d) Dumb.

15. What is Cece's reply to Mike's question when she finally turns away from her imaginings of El Deafo and back to Mike?
(a) She says that she just wants to be friends.
(b) She says she does not like ice cream.
(c) She says that she is not allowed to go to boys' houses.
(d) She says she had just been thinking.

Short Answer Questions

1. What noun does Cece use to describe the state of her life while her Phonic Ear has been in the shop?

2. What is Cece trying to ask Ginny when Mrs. Sinklemann thinks Cece is trying to cheat on the test?

3. What adjective does Cece use to describe Mrs. Sinklemann's status as a teacher?

4. El Deafo tells Cece that Cece does not need superpowers in order to take what action?

5. Cece says that school is not only difficult without her Phonic Ear, but is also what?

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