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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. To which of the following does Charlie compare her head?
(a) A field of corn.
(b) A coal mine.
(c) An oil field.
(d) A gas well.

2. Which of the following interrupts Charlie and Austin in their first attempted assignation?
(a) Gabriella.
(b) Waters.
(c) Sybeck.
(d) Eliot.

3. Which of the following schools does Kayla consider attending?
(a) Howard College.
(b) Wiley College.
(c) Gallaudet University.
(d) Fontbonne University.

4. With which of the following does the forty-fourth chapter of the novel begin?
(a) “Christmas Day, for Austin, was always tinged with bitterness…”
(b) “The atmosphere in the dorm the night before Christmas break was charged…”
(c) “On the afternoon of the thirty-first…”
(d) “Merry Christmas!”

5. With which of the following does the fifty-first chapter of the novel begin?
(a) “In the days after her mother’s death…”
(b) “Look, I’m not a monster.”
(c) “The morning of the play, Charlie woke again with double vision.”
(d) “Charlie arrived home in the early hours of New Year’s Day…”

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following families becomes February’s byword for neglectful parenting?

2. Which of the following is listed as an ingredient in an ancient Egyptian “cure” for deafness?

3. Which of the following does Charlie vomit?

4. Which of the following shows does a grieving February watch?

5. Where does Austin’s mother report having seen the Clash?

Short Essay Questions

1. To what does Charlie compare her mother unboxing her new cochlear implant equipment (202)?

2. How does Austin’s mother demonstrate her displeasure at the scheduling of Skylar’s appointment?

3. How does Charlie deflect her mother’s suspicion after her burglary?

4. What reasons are given for setting off fireworks in the parked car on New Year’s Eve?

5. How does Austin’s grandfather describe the hearing aids he had once been obliged to wear?

6. Why does February regard her mother’s condition as a cruelty?

7. Why does February attempt to insert herself into the conversation between one of her faculty and Austin’s mother?

8. How does Charlie describe her social standing at her old school?

9. What does Charlie note as the question she most hates being asked?

10. How does Gabriella shame Austin at the pizza excursion?

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