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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What Italian art term does Zeger use to describe Ryan's voice?
2. Where did Mr. Brown take Ryan to buy clothes sometimes?
3. Where does Ryan travel for his father's funeral?
4. Where does Ryan attend graduate school?
5. Which opera does Ryan make his Met debut with a part in?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. Why does Ryan's brother Adrian leave home?
3. Why did the child piano prodigy Ken Noda abruptly stop performing piano concerts?
4. When does Ryan first settle on the idea that he would like to sing at the Met someday?
5. What happens to Ryan on the night of November 4, 2008, when Barack Obama is elected president?
6. Why does Ryan like spending time at his friend Jared Poulter's house in high school?
7. What is the personal connection that helps Ryan get into the Virginia Governor's School for the Arts?
8. What kind of influence does Mr. Brown have on Ryan during his time teaching him?
9. In Chapter 9, what effect does the black opera singer Eric Owens say race has on the career of opera singers?
10. In Chapter 13, why is Ryan afraid he may become like the singer Terrence Coleman?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The juvenile detention facility of last resort that Ryan is sent to as a 12 year-old in Virginia was named, at the time, the DeJarnette Center. Write an essay explaining who the center's namesake, Dr. Joseph DeJarnette, was, and why Bergner spends a significant amount of time explaining DeJarnette's background and legacy.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay analyzing how Ryan's relationship with his brother Adrian changed from childhood, through adolescence, and into adulthood. Make sure to cite specific examples from the text in your answer.
Essay Topic 3
Alan Fischer, the chairman for the vocal music department at the Virginia Governor's School for the Arts, where Ryan receives his first formal vocal training, says that Ryan's acceptance into the program was "an extreme case of serendipity" (137). Write an essay analyzing what Fischer meant by this statement and explain the significance of Ryan's acceptance to the program to his life and later career.
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