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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What topic did Lou Ann choose for her senior honors thesis at college?
(a) Handicaps.
(b) Deafness.
(c) Shakespeare's style.
(d) Confessional Novel.

2. How did Lou Ann feel about all the duties placed on her in her childhood?
(a) Suffocated.
(b) Worn out.
(c) Exhausted.
(d) Over used.

3. What was the most important thing Lou Ann bought to take to college?
(a) Thesaurus.
(b) Typewriter
(c) Dictionary.
(d) Car.

4. Who was the second person that Lou Ann met in the deaf street gang?
(a) Big Tim.
(b) Big Steve.
(c) Big John.
(d) Big Willie.

5. Who was Lou Ann's roommate in New York?
(a) Amelia.
(b) Alison.
(c) Amy.
(d) Anne.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Lou Ann go about putting her life in order?

2. Who was Lou Ann's boss at her new job?

3. Whose children in her neighborhood did Lou Ann babysit for when she was a teenager?

4. Why did Lou Ann leave her interpreting job?

5. What did Lou Ann get rid of by spewing her emotions?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Lou Ann feel guilty?

2. What did Lou Ann's parents do for a social life when she was a child?

3. Why did Lou Ann feel that her parents were so often looked down on?

4. Why was it so important to Lou Ann that her father join the Masons?

5. How was Lou Ann's exterior attitude colliding with her interior attitude?

6. What made Lou Ann decide to quit interpreting?

7. What was Lou Ann attempting to write an article about?

8. How did Lou Ann resolve her feelings of guilt?

9. What was Lou Ann's third job while she lived in New York?

10. What was the Nasty Homicides gang?

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