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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which singer prefers to wear a form-fitting dress that the Met's fashion adviser does not like?
(a) Molly.
(b) Deanna.
(c) Michelle.
(d) Anne.

2. Where does Valerie find work after leaving the Air Force?
(a) A school.
(b) A pawn shop.
(c) A hair salon.
(d) A lawyer's office.

3. Which Virginia couple successfully challenged Virginia's ban on interracial marriage at the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1960s?
(a) Margaret and James Redfield.
(b) Kelly and Jonathan Smithfield.
(c) Mildred and Richard Loving.
(d) Barbara and Robert Finard.

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

5. In their last practice session before the Met competition final in Chapter 7, what does the conductor tell Ryan he is doing wrong?
(a) Not being expressive enough.
(b) Coming in at the wrong place in the music.
(c) Singing notes that are not in the score.
(d) Singing too softly.

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

7. Who called Ryan to check on him and speak with him while he was in the juvenile detention facility?
(a) Mr. Brown.
(b) Mr. Fischer.
(c) Patrick Summers.
(d) Mrs. Hughes.

8. What does Ryan struggle with the most as he works with the conductor at the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) Staying in tune.
(b) Italian pronunciation.
(c) Russian pronunciation.
(d) Singing loudly enough.

9. What does Valerie accuse her second husband of doing?
(a) Stealing money from their account.
(b) Sabotaging her career as an insurance salesperson because she made more money than he did.
(c) Cutting her brakes on her car.
(d) Cheating on her.

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

11. What text does Ryan's mother Valerie follow closely as part of her processing of finding God?
(a) The Red Sea Scrolls.
(b) The New Testament.
(c) The Old Testament.
(d) The Book of Mormon.

12. What was Adrian very good at as a child?
(a) Drawing.
(b) Writing.
(c) Playing soccer.
(d) Singing.

13. What did Valerie find when she came home hastily from Korea?
(a) Valerie's father needed to find a new job.
(b) Valerie's mother was dying.
(c) Ryan and Adrian were very ill.
(d) Cecil was living with another woman and that woman's son in her apartment.

14. Which of the following laws did DeJarnette advocate for the passage of?
(a) The Sterilization Act.
(b) The Hatch Act.
(c) The Landowner's Act.
(d) The Children's Rights Act.

15. What does Valerie do when she finds that Ryan and Adrian have hidden a wizard card game she forbade them from playing?
(a) Makes them pay her twice the value of the game.
(b) Grounds them.
(c) Does not feed them for a few days.
(d) Burns it.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Ryan when he was placed into juvenile detention in Virginia?

2. What causes Ryan to have an allergic reaction as a child?

3. Who is the woman Ryan calls a "white Hawaiian bitch" at the juvenile detention center?

4. What does Valerie claim changed her second husband for the worse?

5. How does Valerie meet Cecil, Ryan's father?

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