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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 seventeenth chapter of the novel begin?

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

3. Which of the following does Slash play in the novel?

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

5. Which of the following classes does Sybeck teach?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the stage crew wear headlamps?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Why does Charlie note having been disinterested in politics in school?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the novel define what a culture is?

Essay Topic 2

There is a comment made that February will have to have her school purchase new football helmets, but there is another comment made that the school does not have a homecoming celebration. What implications does the juxtaposition have about the culture of the school? How does the novel support those implications?

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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