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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Ryan's mother take him for his birthday in Chapter 10?
(a) The Met.
(b) Hooters.
(c) The Tilted Kilt.
(d) A shooting range.

2. What does Ryan's voice teacher, Mark Oswald, ask him to do to help improve his sound in Chapter 14?
(a) Stick his head out the window for fresh air.
(b) Blow his nose.
(c) Lie under the piano.
(d) Look at himself in the mirror.

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

4. Who did Ryan say he voted for in the 2008 Presidential Election?
(a) Hillary Clinton.
(b) Jeb Bush.
(c) John McCain.
(d) Barack Obama.

5. Which of the following songs does Ryan sing for his audition for the Virginia Governor's School for the Arts?
(a) My Country Tis of Thee.
(b) The Star-Spangled Banner.
(c) Ol' Man River.
(d) Don Giovanni.

6. What do the kids on Ryan's bus say when they find out he is singing opera?
(a) That he is not tough.
(b) That he should move away.
(c) That he is trying to be white.
(d) That he is trying to act as if he is rich.

7. Which black female singer performed operatic selections at Carnegie Hall in the 1890s?
(a) Marian Anderson.
(b) Denyce Graves.
(c) Sissieretta Jones.
(d) Kathleen Battle.

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

9. What is the name of the special trainee program at the Met that Ryan is invited to audition for after he is a winner of the young singers' competition?
(a) The Weinberg program.
(b) The Flament program.
(c) The Lindemann program.
(d) The LaBarre program.

10. Where does Adrian eventually go after he leaves Valerie's house in Chapter 9?
(a) To live at the house of one of his football teammates.
(b) To live with his aunt Esther.
(c) To live at a girlfriend's house.
(d) To live with his father, Cecil, in California.

11. What city was Ryan in on November 4, 2008, the night Barack Obama was elected president of the United States?
(a) Washington, D.C.
(b) New York, New York.
(c) Chicago, Illinois.
(d) Tallahassee, Florida.

12. Who invited Marian Anderson to sing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1939 after she was barred from singing at Constitution Hall?
(a) Camille LaBarre.
(b) Eleanor Roosevelt.
(c) Nellie Bly.
(d) Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

13. Which musical does Ryan perform in in high school that makes his mother weep in the audience?
(a) Showboat.
(b) Camelot.
(c) Porgy and Bess.
(d) Oklahoma.

14. Which popular black male singer was passed over for a role in the Met's production of The Emperor Jones in the 1930s?
(a) Cole Porter.
(b) Jesse Owens.
(c) Paul Robeson.
(d) Edward Owens.

15. Where does Ryan take a trip with his father in Chapter 12?
(a) Central City, Colorado.
(b) San Francisco, California.
(c) Chicago, Illinois.
(d) Tempe, Arizona.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Greg, Ryan's half-brother, tell him about Cecil?

2. Who is the white student Ryan befriends in school and whose family Ryan spends a great deal of time with?

3. Who is the legendary conductor at the Met who is involved in selecting singers for the Met's special training program?

4. What does Ryan compare the area where he and Valerie move in Chapter 11 to?

5. What new job has Valerie just gotten in Chapter 15?

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