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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 skill does it take Cece a few days to learn how to do again after her illness?
(a) Speak.
(b) Walk.
(c) Tie her shoes.
(d) Use scissors.

2. Cece is surprised when she arrives home to find her mother smoking cigarettes with which character?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Ginny's mother.
(c) Ginny's father.
(d) Ashley.

3. Chapter 6 depicts Cece's miserable summer with Laura the summer after which grade in school?
(a) First.
(b) Third.
(c) Fourth.
(d) Second.

4. The first time Cece imagines her superhero alter ego, what question is she asked that causes her thought bubbles to pop?
(a) Are you listening?
(b) Are you deaf?
(c) Do you like ice cream?
(d) What is your name?

5. How long does the activity take that causes Cece to stop having fun at Ginny's birthday sleepover party?
(a) 14 minutes.
(b) 67 minutes.
(c) 38 minutes.
(d) 103 minutes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT an activity Cece describes or depicts as fun during Ginny's birthday sleepover party?

2. One day, Laura takes Cece along with her to a meeting of what organization after school?

3. In what wintertime activity are Cece and Laura engaged when Laura tells Cece that Cece is doing it all wrong?

4. Who is Sarah?

5. What nice thing does Cece's brother do for her when she returns home from the hospital?

Short Essay Questions

1. During the audiology appointment that Cece attends, what is the first sign to the doctor that there may be a problem with her hearing?

2. What happens to cause Cece to stop having fun at Ginny's sleepover party?

3. What are the visual signatures that Cece Bell uses to depict the imagined activities of Cece's alter ego?

4. Discuss how the theme of appearance versus reality is depicted in the scene when the kids in Cece's new neighborhood turn the radio louder for her.

5. What is the author's purpose for including images related to fishing on page 60?

6. Discuss the symbolism of the on/off switch on Cece's hearing aid.

7. Discuss how Bell communicate Cece's hearing impairment to the reader before Cece knows it herself within the narrative?

8. Discuss the irony present in the scene when Cece declares, "Just call me El Deafo!" (68).

9. Discuss how and when Bell makes it clear that the novel has serious themes, despite its status as a graphic novel.

10. When Cece says that she makes "many discoveries about lip-reading" (31), what are three of the seven discoveries she lists?

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