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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 163-262.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many miscarriages did Anderson's mother have before giving birth to Anderson?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

2. Anderson states that in her school abroad, the students had been allowed to engage in what activity during class?
(a) Knitting.
(b) Chewing gum.
(c) Texting.
(d) Drawing.

3. Anderson states in the introduction to her poetry memoir that she wrote her book Speak how many years after she was raped?
(a) 20.
(b) 15.
(c) 25.
(d) 10.

4. What is the subtitle of the Prelude?
(a) Mic test.
(b) Transmission from the Satellite Heart.
(c) Open mic.
(d) Session one.

5. When Anderson was young, she and her friends liked to pretend they were taking what action as they rode their bikes?
(a) Riding horses.
(b) Riding in the Tour de France.
(c) Chopping down telephone poles.
(d) Driving race cars.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much time went by before Anderson began to worry about pregnancy as a result of her rape?

2. When Anderson's father saw his friend die in front of him, they were both repairing airplanes in what location?

3. In the poem entitled "the word," Anderson states that "Eve ate the apple" (194) due to what reason?

4. What do the lottery tickets symbolize in the poem entitled "strawberry-blonde fairy tales" (129)?

5. The poem entitled "forgiveness" uses which academic subject as a method of exposing the frequency with which young women experience sexual violence?

(see the answer key)

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