Print
Word
PDF
|
| Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. At what young age did Anderson learn how to drive a car?
2. What kind of textbooks were censored in Anderson's high school?
3. How old was Anderson's father when he saw his friend killed in front of him?
4. What kind of teacher tells Anderson that she should try out for sports teams in her 10th grade year?
5. What was the impetus for Anderson's first feeling of deep shame?
Short Essay Questions
1. What kinds of successes does Anderson cite when demonstrating to the reader the emotional progress she had made by her eleventh grade year?
2. How does Anderson use sarcasm in order to make a point at the end of the poem entitled “ignorance” (83)?
3. How does the theme of transformation enter the part of the poetry memoir describing Anderson’s high school years?
4. What traumatic experience did Anderson's father undergo at age 18?
5. According to Anderson, what element is necessary in order to heal from the trauma of sexual violence?
6. What experience did Anderson's father undergo while working in the concentration camps that helped him heal just a little bit?
7. What do the lifeguards symbolize within the poem entitled "chum"?
8. In what way did travel underscore for Anderson what she did not want to happen in her own life?
9. How does irony appear within the poem entitled “candy-striped” (81)?
10. What is ironic about the experience that teaches Anderson that some words are too powerful to be expressed aloud?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What goals did Anderson’s use of the verse memoir form help her to achieve with SHOUT?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss Anderson's choice to tell the story of SHOUT using the form of a poetry memoir. What elements of the story’s themes lend themselves to this choice and what are Anderson’s intended effects on the reader?
Essay Topic 3
How does Anderson use sensory details in order to strengthen the text’s messages? Discuss at least two passages that include the use of sensory details and pull quotes from these passages to support your claim.
|
This section contains 1,094 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) |
|
