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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 is the name of Charlie’s father?
2. Which of the following professions does Charlie’s father hold?
3. With which of the following does the sixteenth chapter of the novel begin?
4. Which of the following shows Charlie how to work the curtains with the drama club?
5. Which of the following does Charlie’s father cook for breakfast?
Short Essay Questions
1. What fallback educational plans does February draft against the closing of her school?
2. Why does Charlie note having been disinterested in politics in school?
3. To what factors does February ascribe her expectation for her school’s endurance among the closures of so many schools for the Deaf?
4. What is the utopian vision February’s students describe in her class?
5. Why is the instructor at Charlie’s first ASL class late?
6. What reason does February give for injuring herself in school?
7. What indication do Skylar’s grandparents first have that she can hear?
8. What explanation is given for the existence of the New Quarters?
9. What feeling about Austin does Charlie acknowledge after her first encounter with Gabriella?
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
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 2
Which character is the second most important in the text? How does the work support such an assertion?
Essay Topic 3
The town in which the novel is set is presented as being in Ohio, near West Virginia and just inside the border between Ohio and Kentucky.
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