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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. What is NOT a quality for which Cece and Mike are chosen to play bookends in the sixth graders' presentation?

2. What adjective does the destroyer of Cece's present from her father use to describe the present?

3. What is Cece's response when the girl across the street invites her to help make "dirt soup" (121)?

4. When Cece's mother is on the phone with the person Cece delightedly thinks is Martha, with whom is her mother actually speaking?

5. For what reason can Cece not understand Martha when Martha is asking Cece what she would like from Long John Silver's?

Short Essay Questions

1. What methods does Cece use in order to renew her friendship with Martha?

2. What is ironic about Martha's reasons for breaking off her friendship with Cece?

3. What is the symbolism of the Hostess cherry pie?

4. What change leads to all but one of Cece's grades improving considerably?

5. How do Cece and Martha become friends?

6. Describe Cece's conflicted feelings about Mike's kind treatment.

7. How is the theme of tenacity demonstrated in the outcome of Cece's flexed-arm hang test?

8. What unexpected benefit does Cece receive when trying out her new glasses for the first time?

9. What is the author's purpose for including allusions to Little House on the Prairie and The Waltons during Cece's first time visiting Martha's house?

10. How is the theme of trust exemplified within the Wonderful World of Books presentation scene?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the author's choice to represent Cece using an anthropomorphic rabbit. What are the qualities of rabbits that lend themselves to the themes and messages included within El Deafo?

Essay Topic 2

Choose three specific rules that Cece Bell uses when creating the images in El Deafo, such as her inclusion of bubbled borders around any panel in which Cece is imagining possible events. Then analyze the author's purpose for each of these three rules and discuss their connections to the novel's themes.

Essay Topic 3

Illustrations are used by Cece Bell in order to create vivid pictures of each character's progression through the narrative and to send the reader messages using visual metaphors. Choose three scenes in which a visual metaphor is used and discuss how the illustrations used by the author set a particular mood and send a particular message within each of the three scenes.

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