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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. How does Mr. Brown die?
(a) Stroke.
(b) Heart attack.
(c) Cancer.
(d) AIDS.

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

3. Who calls Ryan to tell him his father has died?
(a) Valerie.
(b) Miss Lonna, Ryan's father's fiance.
(c) Adrian.
(d) Aunt Esther.

4. Which club at school does Ryan join after he is released from the DeJarnette Center?
(a) Chess.
(b) Latin.
(c) Science.
(d) Math.

5. What Italian art term does Zeger use to describe Ryan's voice?
(a) Fresco.
(b) Sfumato.
(c) Chiaroscuro.
(d) Contrapposto.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Ken Noda's ethnic background?

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

3. Where did Mr. Brown take Ryan to buy clothes sometimes?

4. What city was Ryan in on November 4, 2008, the night Barack Obama was elected president of the United States?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why did the famous opera singer Marian Anderson perform a concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1939?

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

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

6. What was wrong with the area that Valerie and Ryan move to, the little green shack, in a town outside of Norfolk?

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

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

9. 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?

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

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