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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. At which of the following hardware stores does February shop?

2. Which of the following had a production facility in Colson?

3. Which of the following roles does Austin play?

4. At which of the following stores do Charlie and her mother shop for things for school?

5. In which grade are the students who flush their hearing aids down the toilet?

Short Essay Questions

1. For what reason does Charlie note being glad to leave her old school behind in the wake of her custody hearing?

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

3. While waiting in the hospital for the birth of his sister, what does Austin note is “the problem with everything these days” (94)?

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why is the instructor at Charlie’s first ASL class late?

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

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

In the novel, some characters are given but one name, while others are given first- and surnames, and still others are accorded names and titles. What significance, if any, accrues to patterns of naming in the novel? If no significance accrues, what purpose might be served by the patterns of naming in the novel? How does True Biz bear as much out?

Essay Topic 3

Amid February’s musings early in the novel is a linguistic concept described as “the ‘critical window,’ within which a child had to gain fluency in at least one language, any language, or risk permanent cognitive damage. Once the window shut, learning anything became difficult, even impossible—without a language, how does one think, or even feel?” (17). Does the concept bear out in the novel and in experience? How so, or how not?

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