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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Chapters 17 - 19).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ryan most like to do at the juvenile detention center?
(a) Read.
(b) Talk to the other children there.
(c) Play football.
(d) Play Nintendo games.

2. What store does Camille LaBarre take Ryan to to get clothes for the Met competition's final audition?
(a) Brooks Brothers.
(b) Men's Wearhouse.
(c) Bloomingdales.
(d) Talbot's.

3. What does Greg, Ryan's half-brother, tell him about Cecil?
(a) That Cecil had not believed Ryan was his biological son.
(b) That Cecil had told Greg he hoped Ryan would forgive him for not being there as Ryan grew up.
(c) That Cecil had not really wanted to marry Lonna.
(d) That Cecil had money he wanted Ryan to have.

4. What does Cecil do for Ryan's colleagues after they perform in Chapter 12?
(a) He feeds them with food he has leftover from a barbecue festival he cooked at earlier in the day.
(b) He sings for them.
(c) He takes them gambling at the casino.
(d) He regales them with stories and jokes about his early career.

5. What does Ryan tell Mr. Brown as they leave the Met from his high school field trip?
(a) That he has to drop out of Governor's School so he can focus on football.
(b) That someday he is going to sing at the Met.
(c) That he is giving up on singing because he will never be that good.
(d) That he is going to move to Europe on his own to study opera.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one thing that agitates Ryan very badly when he is at the juvenile detention center?

2. What does Ryan wait for from his father as a child?

3. Two days before Ryan is scheduled to be released from the detention center, what does he do to another child?

4. Why does Valerie quit the Air Force?

5. Who is the conductor who works with Ryan at the start of Chapter 5?

(see the answer key)

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