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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With which of the following does the fiftieth chapter of the novel begin?
(a) “Austin could feel the music long before they got where they were going.”
(b) “The morning of the play, Charlie woke again with double vision.”
(c) “Look, I’m not a monster.”
(d) “Charlie arrived home in the early hours of New Year’s Day…”

2. In what year is the National Association for the Deaf founded?
(a) 1890.
(b) 1880.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1990.

3. With which of the following does the thirty-third chapter of the novel begin?
(a) “February found the emptying of the dorms…”
(b) “Austin spent the rest of Tuesday evening and all of their truncated Wednesday schedule awash with humiliation…”
(c) “Charlie was always ambivalent about the holidays.”
(d) “I said, how was school?”

4. With which of the following does the forty-ninth chapter of the novel begin?
(a) “The morning of the play, Charlie woke again with double vision.”
(b) “Austin could feel the music long before they got where they were going.”
(c) “Come on, said Charlie.”
(d) “Charlie arrived home in the early hours of New Year’s Day…”

5. Which of the following do Slash and his compatriots steal?
(a) Copper.
(b) Aluminum.
(c) Tin.
(d) Steel.

6. Which of the following does Austin’s family serve for dinner on New Year’s Eve?
(a) Fried chicken.
(b) Hot dogs.
(c) Pizza.
(d) Hamburgers.

7. Where does Austin’s mother report having seen the Clash?
(a) Kalamazoo.
(b) Kankakee.
(c) Kerrville.
(d) Kanawha.

8. Which of the following families becomes February’s byword for neglectful parenting?
(a) Gerald.
(b) Malloy.
(c) Smith.
(d) Schneider.

9. Which of the following families does February note is neglectful in the current school year?
(a) Smith.
(b) Malloy.
(c) Gerald.
(d) Schneider.

10. To which of the following does Charlie’s father compare her?
(a) Herod.
(b) Scrooge.
(c) The Grinch.
(d) The Heat Miser.

11. What color shoe does Charlie’s grandmother wear?
(a) Fuchsia.
(b) Mauve.
(c) Magenta.
(d) Chartreuse.

12. What color lipstick does Austin’s grandmother wear?
(a) Fuchsia.
(b) Mauve.
(c) Magenta.
(d) Chartreuse.

13. Which of the following foods does Mel retrieve while attending at February’s mother’s deathbed?
(a) Cheetos.
(b) Cheez-Its.
(c) Utz Cheese Balls.
(d) Doritos.

14. Which of the following is the first to attest differences between ASL and BASL?
(a) Croneberg.
(b) Skinner.
(c) Metzger.
(d) McCaskill.

15. With which of the following does the thirty-seventh chapter of the novel begin?
(a) “Charlie woke in the morning to find Slash staring at her.”
(b) “For February, intuition was a kind of intelligence…”
(c) “Charlie let the bite of her mother’s accusation ripple…”
(d) “Word about Sky’s hearing…”

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does Skinner found the School for Colored Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Children?

2. With which of the following does the forty-third chapter of the novel begin?

3. What color lipstick does February wear?

4. How old is Wanda when her brother dies?

5. For which of the following words does Charlie understand an English – ASL pun?

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