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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's the weather like on the day of the new boy's arrival in Frannie's class?
2. What does Frannie do as she and Sean step out of the rec center into the snow?
3. What are the first words Mama says to Frannie when Frannie goes into her bedroom?
4. What is Frannie's thought when the boy speaks?
5. Who is the first to ask the new boy's name?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Frannie say about their parents decision not to have an operation that might have made Sean hear and about what her mother sometimes does to Sean's ears?
2. What are the scars on Frannie's hands, where did they come from and what does her mother do to them sometimes?
3. Describe the conversation between Frannie and the girls who are watching Sean play basketball.
4. What does Frannie say about Trevor's appearance and what this means about his ethnicity?
5. What does Frannie say about Trevor's reputation and the way other children felt about him?
6. What are the reactions of Samantha and Maribel when the new boy signs to answer the question posed by Trevor and Rayray?
7. What is the game Sean and Frannie sometimes play about sounds and give one example of their game.
8. What do Sean, Frannie and Mama do on Saturday morning?
9. What does Frannie say some people might see if they looked into her neighborhood and what does she think about her neighborhood?
10. How was Trevor injured?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe the social setting for the story. What are the attitudes of blacks and whites toward each other? What are the attitudes of most people toward people with disabilities, such as deafness?
Essay Topic 2
Frannie says that Sean taught her to speak and that she grew up "in his world of words." How might Frannie's life have been different without Sean's influence? Would her life have been better? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
Sean says that he would like to live in a world where every window had a bridge to somewhere else. What does he mean by this? Why does he say he'd be willing to be the first to cross? Would you be willing to be the first?
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