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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. In what room at the school does Charlie lodge?

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

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

4. As which of the following is “true biz” translated?

5. Which of the following professions does Mel hold?

Short Essay Questions

1. What fallback educational plans does February draft against the closing of her school?

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

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

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

5. To what factors does February ascribe her expectation for her school’s endurance among the closures of so many schools for the Deaf?

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

7. What is the utopian vision February’s students describe in her class?

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

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

10. Why does the stage crew wear headlamps?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explicate the significance of the name of any one character in the text.

Essay Topic 2

What character is the protagonist of True Biz? How does the novel support such an assertion? Why does it matter that the protagonist is who it is?

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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