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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. Which of the following does Swall eat when meeting with February?

2. With which of the following does the twenty-fourth chapter of the novel begin?

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

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

5. What is the name of Slash’s band?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What feeling about Austin does Charlie acknowledge after her first encounter with Gabriella?

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

4. For what reason does Charlie note being glad to leave her old school behind in the wake of her custody hearing?

5. What indication do Skylar’s grandparents first have that she can hear?

6. Why are Charlie and her father late for their first ASL class?

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

8. Why does Charlie note knowing how sound travels through balloons?

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

10. What event causes Charlie to be assigned to drama club activities?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

For any one character in the text, explain how the text presents that character as a token, noting of what group that character is a token and how the tokenism affects the narrative.

Essay Topic 2

Consider the concept of fridging, discussed by Gail Simone and others: briefly, a character is introduced, developed, and destroyed as a means of promoting character development on the part of another, more major, character in a given work. Is February’s mother an example of fridging? How does the novel demonstrate that she is or is not?

Essay Topic 3

Typically, an epigraph is expected to speak to or set the tone for the work it introduces. Do the epigraphs of True Biz do so for the present novel? How or how not?

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