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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. Where does Austin’s mother report having seen the Clash?

2. Which of the following is expected to be hosting a New Year’s Eve party?

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

4. With which of the following does the thirty-sixth chapter of the novel begin?

5. Which of the following is the first to attest differences between ASL and BASL?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does February regard her mother’s condition as a cruelty?

2. What does Austin offer Charlie that she had not previously found attractive?

3. What reasons are given for setting off fireworks in the parked car on New Year’s Eve?

4. Why does February attempt to insert herself into the conversation between one of her faculty and Austin’s mother?

5. Why do February’s mother and Mel’s father express appreciation for stuffing?

6. For what reason is the kind of cochlear implant Charlie has recalled?

7. Why does Wanda think of her brother upon learning of the imminent closure of her school?

8. How does Gabriella shame Austin at the pizza excursion?

9. What does Wanda note is the end-game against the Deaf?

10. How does Austin prepare himself to invite Charlie to his grandparents’ New Year’s Eve party?

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

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 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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