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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. Where does the new boy say he learned to sign?
(a) His father was deaf.
(b) His mother was deaf.
(c) He doesn't remember.
(d) He attended the Daffodil school.

2. What dose the new boy say to Rayray and Trevor in sign language?
(a) Why are you so mean?
(b) Leave me alone
(c) No, I'm not deaf.
(d) Are you stupid?

3. What happens when Frannie touches the surface of the tiny creek with her boot?
(a) She slips and almost falls in.
(b) The ripples spread out and fade away.
(c) The ice cracks.
(d) Her shoe gets wet.

4. What color does Rayray say Jesus was?
(a) He was white.
(b) He was black.
(c) He wasn't any color, like air.
(d) He was brown.

5. Which of the following is among the things in the lobby of Frannie's apartment building?
(a) A painting of a dog chasing a fox.
(b) An old-fashioned counter .
(c) A fire place.
(d) A stack of boxes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What's Frannie's chore after dinner?

2. What does Mama say about the poem when Frannie tells her about it?

3. Where does the new boy sit?

4. What are the three things Sean does very well?

5. Why does Frannie say she left the gym before Sean's game was over?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Frannie's parents begin doing after Lila's death and what is the significance of this action?

2. Describe what Frannie sees at the corner of North Conduit and Eastbay Road.

3. What does the new boy say when Frannie asks what it was like to live on the other side of the highway.

4. What is Frannie's mother's interpretation of the poem about hope, and what does Sean say about it?

5. What does Frannie say is the sign for "believe" and why does she think it's appropriate?

6. What does Frannie say about her memories of the year she'd started school a month late?

7. What are the scars on Frannie's hands, where did they come from and what does her mother do to them sometimes?

8. What does Frannie note about Samantha's manners and what happens at the table to make her take note of them?

9. What does Frannie argue when Samantha says that Jesus might have chosen to come to Price at this time because there's a war going on?

10. What does Maribel say about the lunch and what is the comparison she makes to another cafeteria?

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