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

2. What is Austin’s mother’s name?
(a) Beth.
(b) Priss.
(c) Liz.
(d) Jan.

3. Which of the following does Charlie vomit?
(a) Seaweed salad.
(b) Egg salad.
(c) Tuna salad.
(d) Chicken salad.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. With which of the following does the fifty-first chapter of the novel begin?

2. How old is Wanda’s brother when he dies?

3. With which of the following does the twenty-seventh chapter of the novel begin?

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

5. Which of the following sports does Charlie’s mother’s love watching on Christmas?

Short Essay Questions

1. What constant in school nursing does Charlie note?

2. What does Charlie note as the question she most hates being asked?

3. Why does Charlie note to Austin that she turns off her cochlear implant at the club where Slash’s band plays?

4. Why do February’s mother and Mel’s father express appreciation for stuffing?

5. How is Deaf Standard Time defined in the novel?

6. To what does Charlie compare her mother unboxing her new cochlear implant equipment (202)?

7. What curricular reforms does Kayla purpose to enact?

8. For what reason is the kind of cochlear implant Charlie has recalled?

9. What does Wanda note is the end-game against the Deaf?

10. How does Charlie deflect her mother’s suspicion after her burglary?

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