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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 is Cece trying to ask Ginny when Mrs. Sinklemann thinks Cece is trying to cheat on the test?
(a) She is trying to ask Ginny what the first word on the board is.
(b) She is trying to ask Ginny what she should do if she has to go to the bathroom.
(c) She is trying to ask Ginny the answer to number four.
(d) She is trying to ask Ginny how much time they have left.

2. When Martha and Cece decide to play tag one day, on what object does Cece snag and injure her eye?
(a) A branch.
(b) A telephone pole.
(c) A fence.
(d) A flagpole.

3. On which member of the Miller family does Cece develop a crush?
(a) Kathy.
(b) Steve.
(c) Caryn.
(d) Mike.

4. When Cece's mother is on the phone with the person Cece delightedly thinks is Martha, with whom is her mother actually speaking?
(a) Ginny.
(b) Ashley.
(c) Sarah.
(d) Laura.

5. What adjective does the destroyer of Cece's present from her father use to describe the present?
(a) Stupid.
(b) Fancy.
(c) Fun.
(d) Ugly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT a way that Cece tries to get in contact with Martha after her eye injury?

2. For what reason can Cece not understand Martha when Martha is asking Cece what she would like from Long John Silver's?

3. What is Cece's reply to Mike's question when she finally turns away from her imaginings of El Deafo and back to Mike?

4. What matching clothing items do Cece and Mike have to wear in the Wonderful World of Books presentation?

5. In the visual depiction of the physical education teacher's treatment of the athletic kids, what is he shown to be doing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to break Cece's microphone for her Phonic Ear?

2. What change leads to all but one of Cece's grades improving considerably?

3. How does Cece come to be tasked with the mission of telling the class when Mrs. Sinklemann is returning to the classroom?

4. Describe Cece's conflicted feelings about Mike's kind treatment.

5. How do Cece and Martha become friends?

6. What is the author's purpose for including allusions to Little House on the Prairie and The Waltons during Cece's first time visiting Martha's house?

7. In what class is Cece's one non-satisfactory grade and how does she feel about the class?

8. What action does Cece imagine Mike taking when he sees Cece's Phonic Ear for the first time?

9. How does Bell employ suspense within the scenes when Cece is preparing to take her new curly pencil with her to school the next day?

10. What visual element does Cece Bell often use to indicate the overwhelming nature of being able to hear words while not being able to understand them?

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