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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Chapters 5 - 8).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Ryan do when he finds out he is a winner of the Met's competition for young singers?
(a) Faints.
(b) Dances in the wings before walking onstage.
(c) Hugs his mother.
(d) Tears his tie off his neck in joy.

3. How does Valerie's older brother die?
(a) He died in a robbery.
(b) He died of a heart attack.
(c) He died of AIDS.
(d) He died of cancer.

4. What does Ryan do on his first day in the class for students with behavioral problems in elementary school?
(a) Impresses the teacher with his reading skills.
(b) Throws a chair through the window.
(c) Sings for the class.
(d) Throws his desk at the teacher.

5. Who is the Met competition for young singers' director?
(a) Gayletha Nichols.
(b) Camille LaBarre.
(c) Bette Hughes.
(d) Siobhan O'Malley.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Valerie's relationship with her second husband like?

2. What does the Italian coach tell Ryan to do to practice his pronunciation in Chapter 7?

3. What did Adrian produce as part of his art projects?

4. What was each section of the juvenile detention center called?

5. What did one of the kind workers at the juvenile detention center do for Ryan that helped him?

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