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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. Who was the second person that Lou Ann met in the deaf street gang?

2. What gang was the deaf gang an undergrowth of?

3. What did Lou Ann's family expect her to be?

4. How did Lou Ann feel about all the duties placed on her in her childhood?

5. When did Lou Ann make her first phone call home from college?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Lou Ann's experience with Tyrone impact her?

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

4. Where did Lou Ann go after graduating from Harvard?

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

6. How did Lou Ann feel about the work she had to do at Harvard?

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

8. What did Lou Ann do the summer before college?

9. How did Lou Ann's views toward her interpreting work change over time?

10. What was the money situation like when Lou Ann was a child?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare Lou Ann's life with deaf parents to how she thought her life would have been with hearing parents.

Essay Topic 2

Compare Lou Ann's maternal and paternal grandparents reactions to finding out that their respective children were deaf, using examples from the book.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the impact that deafness played on Gale and his family. Use examples from the book.

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