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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. What was Craig's biggest fear growing up?

2. What happened to Barack's first book deal?

3. What distinguished the middle C key on Obama's great aunt's piano from the others?

4. Who taught Obama to play piano?

5. How did Obama discover the engagement ring?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened when Obama jumped forward in her piano workbook?

2. What started happening to Obama's neighborhood when she was a child?

3. What is the name of the Obama's first child, and when was she born?

4. What was Michelle Obama's living situation growing up?

5. What did Suzanne reveal to Obama when they were in their mid-twenties?

6. What was the Third World Center?

7. Why was it so easy for Obama to find the middle C key on Robbie's piano?

8. What happened after Obama got pregnant for the first time?

9. What did Obama's father do when she told him to stay home from work and rest?

10. What was Project VOTE!

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay defining support from Michelle Obama's perspective. What does it mean to be supportive and who are the people in Obama's life who have taught her this?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay in which you explore Michelle Obama's relationship to the place she grew up, the South Side of Chicago. What about this place is significant to her, and why?

Essay Topic 3

In the book, Obama describes a dream she had while in the White House, in which her family were nearly attacked by wild animals set loose. In what ways did this dream reflect Obama's reality, and, on a psychological level, what may it have symbolized?

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