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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. Which of the following foods does Austin retrieve while in the hospital at Skylar’s birth?
(a) Cheez-Its.
(b) Cheetos.
(c) Doritos.
(d) Utz Cheese Balls.

2. Which of the following shows Charlie how to work the curtains with the drama club?
(a) Alisha.
(b) Gabriella.
(c) Kayla.
(d) Austin.

3. Which of the following had a production facility in Colson?
(a) Bridgestone.
(b) Continental.
(c) Michelin.
(d) Goodyear.

4. With which of the following does the first chapter of the novel begin?
(a) “The summer before her sophomore year…”
(b) “After the Serrano meeting…”
(c) “Charlie and her father were late to their first ASL class.”
(d) “February Waters was nine years old…”

5. Whom of the following is cited in the novel’s epigraphs?
(a) Nikola Tesla.
(b) Benjamin Franklin.
(c) Thomas Alva Edison.
(d) Alexander Graham Bell.

Short Answer Questions

1. With which of the following does the fourth chapter of the novel begin?

2. With which of the following does the sixteenth chapter of the novel begin?

3. With which of the following does the seventeenth chapter of the novel begin?

4. With which of the following does the fifth chapter of the novel begin?

5. What make of car does Charlie’s mother drive?

Short Essay Questions

1. For what reasons does Austin note a student enters River Valley as a high schooler?

2. How does Charlie convince her father to let her go out to attend Kyle’s show?

3. Why is the instructor at Charlie’s first ASL class late?

4. What finally prompts the Workman ancestors to flee institutional confinement?

5. Why does the stage crew wear headlamps?

6. To what does February ascribe the origin of her name?

7. While waiting in the hospital for the birth of his sister, what does Austin note is “the problem with everything these days” (94)?

8. What kind of ring does February get for Mel?

9. To what does February ascribe the low regard in which teenagers are often held?

10. What occasions Charlie’s return to mainstream schooling from her placement in special education?

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