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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. In what year does the Milan Conference regarding the Deaf occur?

2. Which of the following does Austin’s family serve for dinner on New Year’s Eve?

3. Which of the following is listed as an ingredient in an ancient Egyptian “cure” for deafness?

4. With which of the following does the forty-fifth chapter of the novel begin?

5. What color lipstick does Austin’s grandmother wear?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Kayla work to go viral online?

2. What does Charlie note as the question she most hates being asked?

3. How does Wanda’s visit while February grieves comfort the latter?

4. What curricular reforms does Kayla purpose to enact?

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

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

7. Of what kind of joke does Charlie note she is happy to be the butt, and why?

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

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

10. Why does Charlie note to Austin that she turns off her cochlear implant at the club where Slash’s band plays?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sources attest to the presence of True Biz on bestseller lists. Assuming that sales figures reflect popularity, what accounts for the popularity of the novel? 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. On what grounds might the current divisions be in place? Why and how are they appropriate to the text?

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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