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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. With which of the following does the first chapter of the novel begin?
2. With which of the following does the third chapter of the novel begin?
3. Which of the following is the name of Charlie’s father?
4. Whom of the following is cited in the novel’s epigraphs?
5. With which of the following does the fifteenth chapter of the novel begin?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Charlie note knowing how sound travels through balloons?
2. For what reasons does Austin note a student enters River Valley as a high schooler?
3. What feeling about Austin does Charlie acknowledge after her first encounter with Gabriella?
4. While waiting in the hospital for the birth of his sister, what does Austin note is “the problem with everything these days” (94)?
5. What reason does February give for injuring herself in school?
6. How does Charlie convince her father to let her go out to attend Kyle’s show?
7. Why are Charlie and her father late for their first ASL class?
8. What fallback educational plans does February draft against the closing of her school?
9. For what reason does Charlie note being glad to leave her old school behind in the wake of her custody hearing?
10. What kind of ring does February get for Mel?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
To what genre other than young adult literature might True Biz be considered to belong? What in the text supports that identification? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 2
A comment is made in the novel that children of Deaf adults—CODAs—“still counted as ‘big D’ Deaf” (116). What, per the novel, defines “‘big D’ Deaf,” what in the text supports that definition, and how does it do so?
Essay Topic 3
Explicate the significance of the name of any one character in the text.
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