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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 does Trevor ask the new boy when the boy doesn't say what his name is?

2. What sound does Frannie hear from the new boy when he sits down?

3. Why is Trevor absent on the second day after the new boy arrives?

4. What are the three things Sean does very well?

5. Which of the following is among the things in the lobby of Frannie's apartment building?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Frannie note about Samantha's manners and what happens at the table to make her take note of them?

2. What did Frannie's parents begin doing after Lila's death and what is the significance of this action?

3. What does Frannie say some people might see if they looked into her neighborhood and what does she think about her neighborhood?

4. What does Frannie say about her memories of the year she'd started school a month late?

5. What is the game Sean and Frannie sometimes play about sounds and give one example of their game.

6. What does Frannie say about her hair and her mother's one attempt to change it?

7. What do Frannie and Samantha say about the fact that the new boy is white and Samantha's idea that he might be Jesus?

8. 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?

9. What does Frannie say about how quickly she's growing up?

10. Describe the conversation between Sean and Frannie as they begin cooking dinner.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the most important scene of the story? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Frannie and Sean play a game in which one says a word and the other describes how that word sounds. How did this game come into being? Why is it important to both of them? Frannie says Sean is better at it than she. How can this be true considering that Sean doesn't hear sounds?

Essay Topic 3

Samantha asks Frannie why she rushed to help Trevor up after he fell in the school yard. What is Samantha's response and what does she mean by this? Why is Frannie skeptical that this could really be Frannie's motivation? Is Frannie right?

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