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

2. Which composer's work does Ken Noda suggest Ryan try singing in Chapter 15?
(a) Verdi.
(b) Mozart.
(c) Mahler.
(d) Puccini.

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

4. Who runs the Met's Lindemann training program?
(a) Brian Zeger.
(b) James Levine.
(c) Joyce DiDonato.
(d) Gayletha Nichols.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mark Oswald think is one of Ryan's problems when he sings?

2. What derogatory name did Ryan's classmates at school sometimes call him?

3. Which musical does Ryan perform in in high school that makes his mother weep in the audience?

4. Who invited Marian Anderson to sing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1939 after she was barred from singing at Constitution Hall?

5. Why does Adrian leave the home he was sharing with Valerie and Ryan in Chapter 9?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of influence does Mr. Brown have on Ryan during his time teaching him?

2. Why does Ryan like spending time at his friend Jared Poulter's house in high school?

3. What does Noda say is the greatest part of Ryan's appeal as a singer?

4. What is the personal connection that helps Ryan get into the Virginia Governor's School for the Arts?

5. How does Gayletha Nichols describes Ryan's appeal to other people in Chapter 14?

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

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

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

9. Why did the child piano prodigy Ken Noda abruptly stop performing piano concerts?

10. In Chapter 13, why is Ryan afraid he may become like the singer Terrence Coleman?

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