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

2. Which of the following does Charlie vomit?

3. Which of the following games does February’s mother report playing?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Austin’s mother demonstrate her displeasure at the scheduling of Skylar’s appointment?

5. What curricular reforms does Kayla purpose to enact?

6. To what does Charlie compare her mother unboxing her new cochlear implant equipment (202)?

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

8. Why does Kayla work to go viral online?

9. What constant in school nursing does Charlie note?

10. As she accosts Austin after the birth of his sister, Gabriella points out an instance of irony. What is it?

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

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

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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