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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the plaza where the New York Metropolitan Opera House is located?
(a) Times Square.
(b) Herald Square.
(c) Washington Square.
(d) Lincoln Center.

2. What regime in Europe did DeJarnette sympathize with during the 1930s and 1940s?
(a) The Nazi regime.
(b) The Tory regime.
(c) The Green regime.
(d) The Communist regime.

3. Who is the woman Ryan calls a "white Hawaiian bitch" at the juvenile detention center?
(a) Yvette Wyatt.
(b) Jennifer Reynolds.
(c) Priscilla Jenkins.
(d) Bette Hughes.

4. What important leader does Ryan's elementary school teacher introduce him to?
(a) Martin Luther King Jr.
(b) Franklin Roosevelt.
(c) President Kennedy.
(d) Ghandi.

5. What did one of the kind workers at the juvenile detention center do for Ryan that helped him?
(a) She let him call his mother more often.
(b) She gave him a skateboard he loved.
(c) She secretly gave him his favorite candy.
(d) She gave him extra points for privileges even if he did not deserve them.

6. What kind of work did Cecil, Ryan's father, once perform?
(a) Bodybuilding.
(b) Construction.
(c) Engineering.
(d) Accounting.

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

8. What was each section of the juvenile detention center called?
(a) A complex.
(b) A quarter.
(c) A team.
(d) A pod.

9. Which Verdi opera does Ryan sing an aria from for his audition piece in the Met's young singers' competition?
(a) King Lear.
(b) Macbeth.
(c) Don Giovanni.
(d) Othello.

10. Who do Ryan and Adrian stay with when Valerie goes back to Korea?
(a) Valerie's mother.
(b) Aunt Esther.
(c) They are put in foster care.
(d) A cousin.

11. Who is the Italian coach Ryan works with in Chapter 7?
(a) Ken Noda.
(b) Ed Oswald.
(c) Patrick Summers.
(d) Carrie-Ann Matheson.

12. What did Adrian produce as part of his art projects?
(a) Many large sketch books full of all different kinds of collages.
(b) A room full of charcoal drawings.
(c) A portfolio of work he used to apply for college.
(d) Drawings of dinosaurs that he made into dozens of scrolls.

13. Two days before Ryan is scheduled to be released from the detention center, what does he do to another child?
(a) Pours milk down his back.
(b) Spits in his face.
(c) Breaks his finger.
(d) Beats him badly.

14. How old is Ryan in 2011 when he enters the Met's competition?
(a) 15.
(b) 40.
(c) 30.
(d) 24.

15. What did someone on the staff at the juvenile detention center give Ryan that he loved and he would lose if he lost control of his behavior?
(a) A sketch pad.
(b) A hand-held video game.
(c) A television of his own.
(d) A small radio.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Ryan's middle name?

2. Which of the following was Dr. Joseph DeJarnette known for?

3. What was one of the ways in which Adrian developed his talent as a child?

4. What store does Camille LaBarre take Ryan to to get clothes for the Met competition's final audition?

5. What does Ryan do on his first day in the class for students with behavioral problems in elementary school?

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