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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 roles does Gabriella play?
2. Which of the following had a production facility in Colson?
3. In which grade are the students who flush their hearing aids down the toilet?
4. Which of the following does Charlie’s father cook for breakfast?
5. In what city is the care facility into which February places her mother?
Short Essay Questions
1. What finally prompts the Workman ancestors to flee institutional confinement?
2. Why is the instructor at Charlie’s first ASL class late?
3. What reason does February give for injuring herself in school?
4. What feeling about Austin does Charlie acknowledge after her first encounter with Gabriella?
5. Why does Charlie note having been disinterested in politics in school?
6. For what reasons does Austin note a student enters River Valley as a high schooler?
7. What explanation is given for the existence of the New Quarters?
8. For what reason does Charlie note being glad to leave her old school behind in the wake of her custody hearing?
9. Why does Charlie note knowing how sound travels through balloons?
10. What kind of ring does February get for Mel?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Which character is the second most important in the text? How does the work support such an assertion?
Essay Topic 3
On average, the chapters in the novel, as well as front and back matter, are between five and six pages in length. What effect on the reader does the relative brevity of chapters have, and how is that effect achieved?
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