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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 does Austin’s family serve for dinner on New Year’s Eve?
2. Which of the following is listed as a nineteenth century “cure” for deafness?
3. What message does Austin send to Charlie at his family’s Christmas gathering?
4. With which of the following does the fortieth chapter of the novel begin?
5. Which of the following foods does Mel retrieve while attending at February’s mother’s deathbed?
Short Essay Questions
1. For what reason is the kind of cochlear implant Charlie has recalled?
2. What does Austin offer Charlie that she had not previously found attractive?
3. Why does Charlie note to Austin that she turns off her cochlear implant at the club where Slash’s band plays?
4. How does Charlie deflect her mother’s suspicion after her burglary?
5. What does Charlie note as the question she most hates being asked?
6. What habit are Charlie and her mother shocked to realize they share?
7. How is Deaf Standard Time defined in the novel?
8. How does Gabriella shame Austin at the pizza excursion?
9. Why does February attempt to insert herself into the conversation between one of her faculty and Austin’s mother?
10. What curricular reforms does Kayla purpose to enact?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Overall, what is the most important theme of True Biz? What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 2
A lack of formal sectional division in the novel obliges a fairly arbitrary breakdown of the text for purposes of study and discussion. How might the novel be sectioned off other than it currently is? Why might those divisions be appropriate, based on the text and its contexts of composition and reception?
Essay Topic 3
Which character is the second most important in the text? How does the work support such an assertion?
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