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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. How far was the school from Lou Ann's mom's home?

2. What was Lou Ann's father's middle name?

3. How did Lou Ann's father break his nose?

4. How far did Lou Ann's dad have to drive to see her mom?

5. What flowers did a visitor to Lou Ann's maternal grandmothers home believe had caused Lou Ann's mom to become sick?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Lou Ann looking forward to getting away from when she transferred to Harvard?

2. How did Lou Ann's maternal grandparents react when they found out that their daughter was deaf?

3. What happened at the gas station on the way to Harvard?

4. What transpired when a visitor came to Doris Jean's parents home when she was sick?

5. What did Lou Ann feel that she and her family were to the rest of the world?

6. Why did Lou Ann think that her parents weren't deaf?

7. How did Doris Jean react when she was left at school?

8. What caused Lou Ann's father to become deaf?

9. How were Gale and Garnel different?

10. What were the fears when Lou Ann was born and how were those fears alleviated?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe how Lou Ann's feelings about having deaf parents differed from the opinions of other children of deaf parents.

Essay Topic 2

Lou Ann and her sisters had a strong bond; discuss that bond using examples from the book.

Essay Topic 3

Lou Ann's romantic relationships were deeply affected by her reluctance to discuss her parents deafness. Discuss this using examples from the book.

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