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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Cece states that being what "feels a lot like being alone" (46)?

2. The powerful hearing aid Cece wears just at school is called what?

3. When Cece hears the teachers talking in the staff lounge, what is Mrs. Lufton saying?

4. What does Cece's mother do when the sign language teacher, Mrs. Blankenship, asks if anyone in the class is deaf or hard of hearing?

5. After Cece arrives home from the sleepover at Laura's house, who calls Cece's house right away?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the significance of Cece's experiences in the Girl Scouts?

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

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

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

6. How does Cece use soap operas and cartoons to depict for the reader her experiences watching television?

7. How does the theme of cruelty emerge within Cece's interactions with Laura throughout their first and second grade years?

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

9. What is the significance of Cece's state of mind before her first time hanging out with Emma since her stay at the hospital?

10. What signs lead Cece to eventually realize that she has a hearing impairment?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Read the three-page section at the end of the novel entitled A Note From the Author. Analyze and discuss a particular theme in El Deafo that became clearer to you once you read this section and discuss why all readers of El Deafo should read this appendix inclusion.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the author's messages about guilt and responsibility within Cece Bell's graphic novel memoir El Deafo.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how and why the author instills three different humanist messages into the narrative of Cece Bell's graphic novel memoir El Deafo.

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