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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sport do both Ryan and Adrian play in high school?
(a) Soccer.
(b) Tennis.
(c) Squash.
(d) Football.

2. What is Ryan's reaction when the Governor's School principal phones to tell him he as been accepted?
(a) He is angry.
(b) He is dumbfounded.
(c) His is elated.
(d) He is suspicious.

3. 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.

4. Which famous opera singer does Ryan see perform when he goes to the Met for the first time?
(a) Kathleen Battle.
(b) Renee Fleming.
(c) Denyce Graves.
(d) Marian Anderson.

5. 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 can not stay on pitch.
(d) Ryan needs to be more physically animated when he sings.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which major newspaper wrote a positive review of Ryan's singing in Chapter 15?

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

3. Which family members of Ryan's were in the audience to hear him sing in his first opera a the Met on opening night?

4. What kind of doctor does the Met employ to treat its singers?

5. Who wrote the play The Emperor Jones?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Ryan's brother Adrian leave home?

2. What happens to Ryan on the night of November 4, 2008, when Barack Obama is elected president?

3. When does Ryan first settle on the idea that he would like to sing at the Met someday?

4. In Chapter 11, how does Ryan's budding relationship with the red-headed soprano work out?

5. Why does Ryan join the Latin club and deliberately start making friends with white students in school when he is released from the juvenile detention center?

6. What do Ryan's music teachers at the Governor's School think of his voice when they first hear him sing?

7. Why is Ryan's family very surprised when they hear he is seriously interested in opera?

8. What does winning the Met's competition for young singers mean for a young singer's career?

9. What surprises Noda about Ryan's level of skill when he first starts working with Ryan?

10. In Chapter 9, what effect does the black opera singer Eric Owens say race has on the career of opera singers?

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