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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. Which of the following is expected to be hosting a New Year’s Eve party?
(a) Russell.
(b) Kevin.
(c) Boyd.
(d) Stephen.

2. What color shoe does Charlie’s grandmother wear?
(a) Fuchsia.
(b) Magenta.
(c) Mauve.
(d) Chartreuse.

3. With which of the following does the thirty-seventh chapter of the novel begin?
(a) “Charlie woke in the morning to find Slash staring at her.”
(b) “Word about Sky’s hearing…”
(c) “Charlie let the bite of her mother’s accusation ripple…”
(d) “For February, intuition was a kind of intelligence…”

4. With which of the following does the forty-first chapter of the novel begin?
(a) “Wanda had seen the end of the world once before.”
(b) “Back at school, things fell into their old rhythms.”
(c) “February spent her first week back at River Valley overwhelmed…”
(d) “The atmosphere in the dorm the night before Christmas break was charged…”

5. Which of the following do Slash and his compatriots steal?
(a) Steel.
(b) Copper.
(c) Tin.
(d) Aluminum.

Short Answer Questions

1. With which of the following does the thirty-eighth chapter of the novel begin?

2. Which of the following is the first to attest differences between ASL and BASL?

3. How old is Wanda’s brother when he dies?

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

5. To which of the following does Charlie compare her head?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Austin offer Charlie that she had not previously found attractive?

2. How is Deaf Standard Time defined in the novel?

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

4. Why does Charlie note to Austin that she turns off her cochlear implant at the club where Slash’s band plays?

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

6. How does Austin prepare himself to invite Charlie to his grandparents’ New Year’s Eve party?

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

8. What habit are Charlie and her mother shocked to realize they share?

9. Why does Kayla work to go viral online?

10. What does Charlie note most liking about her grandmother’s visits?

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