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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does Ryan attend graduate school?
(a) Florida State University.
(b) Columbia University.
(c) Carnegie Mellon.
(d) Eastman School of Music.

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

4. Why does Ryan run after the young man who uses a racial slur to describe Obama?
(a) He is angry and wants to talk to the man.
(b) He wants to find out where the man lives so he can report him to the college the man attends.
(c) He plans to lead the police to the man.
(d) He plans to beat the man.

5. What derogatory name did Ryan's classmates at school sometimes call him?
(a) Faker.
(b) Imposter.
(c) Poser.
(d) Oreo.

6. 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) Nellie Bly.
(b) Eleanor Roosevelt.
(c) Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
(d) Camille LaBarre.

7. Which Keats poem is Ryan recording a musical adaptation of in Chapter 14?
(a) She Walks in Beauty.
(b) Ode to a Nightingale.
(c) Ode to a Grecian Urn.
(d) I Am Somebody.

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

9. What famous legend did the story in Wanger's Parsifal draw on?
(a) Odysseus.
(b) Beowulf.
(c) Oedipus.
(d) King Arthur.

10. Who is the white student Ryan befriends in school and whose family Ryan spends a great deal of time with?
(a) Michael Dyson.
(b) Eric Flynn.
(c) James Evans.
(d) Jared Poulter.

11. What does Ryan's friend's father remember Ryan leaving all around the house when he visited?
(a) Twisted-up napkins.
(b) Shoes.
(c) Hairpins.
(d) Food.

12. What does Ryan's new Italian coach keep in his pocket?
(a) A note from his mother.
(b) A drawing of the surfaces of the bones in the head.
(c) A precious ring.
(d) A picture of his daughter.

13. Why does Ryan's voice teacher give up his own singing career?
(a) He struggled with drug addiction.
(b) He lost his voice and strained it too much.
(c) He had a car accident and never fully recovered.
(d) He was plagued with serious chronic health problems.

14. What was Ryan's second role in a Met opera?
(a) A part in Othello.
(b) A part in Don Giovanni.
(c) A part in Madame Butterfly.
(d) A part in Parsifal.

15. What does Mark Oswald think is one of Ryan's problems when he sings?
(a) Ryan gets a look of helplessness and fear when he hears a note coming out wrong.
(b) Ryan sings much too softly sometimes.
(c) Ryan needs to be more physically animated when he sings.
(d) Ryan can not stay on pitch.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which television show does Ryan find solace and meaning in after he is released from the DeJarnette Center?

3. How does Ryan's father die?

4. Who is Ryan's voice teacher in Chapter 13?

5. Why does Ryan initially start taking chorus class in high school?

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