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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. With which of the following does the fourth chapter of the novel begin?
2. Which of the following foods does Austin retrieve while in the hospital at Skylar’s birth?
3. Which of the following roles does Gabriella play?
4. What is the name of Austin’s grandmother?
5. In what city is the care facility into which February places her mother?
Short Essay Questions
1. For what reasons does Austin note a student enters River Valley as a high schooler?
2. What fallback educational plans does February draft against the closing of her school?
3. Why does Charlie note knowing how sound travels through balloons?
4. To what factors does February ascribe her expectation for her school’s endurance among the closures of so many schools for the Deaf?
5. Why is the instructor at Charlie’s first ASL class late?
6. What feeling about Austin does Charlie acknowledge after her first encounter with Gabriella?
7. What explanation is given for the existence of the New Quarters?
8. Why are Charlie and her father late for their first ASL class?
9. Why does Austin opine that it is better to be friendly than friends with one’s roommate?
10. What is the utopian vision February’s students describe in her class?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
On average, the chapters in the novel, as well as front and back matter, are between five and six pages in length. What effect on the reader does the relative brevity of chapters have, and how is that effect achieved?
Essay Topic 2
Typically, an epigraph is expected to speak to or set the tone for the work it introduces. Do the epigraphs of True Biz do so for the present novel? How or how not?
Essay Topic 3
To what genre other than young adult literature might True Biz be considered to belong? What in the text supports that identification? How does it do so?
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