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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 is the first to attest differences between ASL and BASL?
2. Which of the following is expected to be hosting a New Year’s Eve party?
3. Which of the following ejects Charlie and her fellow students from the premises?
4. With which of the following does the thirty-eighth chapter of the novel begin?
5. Which of the following families becomes February’s byword for neglectful parenting?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does February regard her mother’s condition as a cruelty?
2. How is Deaf Standard Time defined in the novel?
3. Of what kind of joke does Charlie note she is happy to be the butt, and why?
4. Why does Charlie note to Austin that she turns off her cochlear implant at the club where Slash’s band plays?
5. What does Wanda note is the end-game against the Deaf?
6. How does Austin’s mother describe hearing culture (211)?
7. How does Charlie deflect her mother’s suspicion after her burglary?
8. What does Charlie note as the question she most hates being asked?
9. What does Charlie note most liking about her grandmother’s visits?
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
The novel points out a number of inversions from mainstream practice. Identify and explicate one such inversion, noting what the common practice is, what the inversion is, and what effect the inversion has for the reader.
Essay Topic 2
Assuming that True Biz should be standard reading for a given class and level, what class and what level do you believe it is most appropriate for? Why that class and why that level? What in the text suggests as much, and how does it do so?
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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