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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 the conductor suggest that Ryan must do by the end of the day in Chapter 5?
(a) Get his sinuses professionally cleared out.
(b) Get a session with an Italian coach.
(c) Go for a run to clear his head.
(d) Have a massage.

2. What happens at Ryan's audition for the Vienna State Opera?
(a) He faints.
(b) He sings the best audition he has ever sung.
(c) He sings terribly.
(d) He vomits.

3. Why does Ryan stop seeing the red-headed girl he meets in the beginning of Chapter 11?
(a) He can not afford the gas to go back and forth to her house.
(b) Her grandparents forbid her to see Ryan because Ryan is black.
(c) She moves away for college.
(d) She cheats on him.

4. What instrument does Zeger say Ryan has to make his voice more like?
(a) A trumpet.
(b) A harp.
(c) A piano.
(d) A tuba.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who called Ryan to check on him and speak with him while he was in the juvenile detention facility?

2. What does Mark Oswald suggest Ryan do after his audition for the Vienna State Opera?

3. What branch of the military did Valerie serve in?

4. Where does Ryan's mother take him for his birthday in Chapter 10?

5. Who wrote the play The Emperor Jones?

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