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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. How many houses were demolished to make the way for the development of I-10 East in 1968?
(a) 265.
(b) 155.
(c) 128.
(d) 29.

2. Who owned the strip of land between the author's childhood home and the next house, according to her narrative in "Movement I: Part V"?
(a) Joseph Martin.
(b) John Gant.
(c) Della Davis.
(d) Bertha Riens.

3. Which of Sarah's siblings did not take his father's death well and went mute for a time?
(a) Darryl.
(b) Carl.
(c) Simon Jr.
(d) Byron.

4. When did the author's mother buy the yellow house where the author grew up?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1961.

5. Who had Edna married when she had Amelia come and live with her in New Orleans?
(a) Henry Carter.
(b) John Gant.
(c) James Watson.
(d) Roger Moore.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Simon Broom bring home for dinner on the night that he died?

2. How many million pounds of thrust were produced by the 131-metric-ton stage one boosters built for the rocket boosters for the first stage of the Saturn Launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida?

3. How tall did Ivory Mae grow to become?

4. What was the name of the only daughter of Octavia and Alvin Javis?

5. When did John McDonogh bequeath half of his estate to New Orleans public schools?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was the author given the name Sarah?

2. What are the points on the map that make up the author's growing-up world, as described in Movement II: Part IV?

3. Who was John McDonogh?

4. When and how did the Yellow House come into the author's family?

5. What profession did Lolo eventually take on? Where did she work?

6. When did Hurricane Betsy strike? What damage did it incur?

7. What was MR-GO, and what were its impacts?

8. When did Ivory Mae marry Simon Broom? How is he described?

9. Who was Sarah McCutcheon and how did she influence Lolo's life?

10. Why does the author say she was given the name Monique in Movement II: Part IV?

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