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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. Who passed away the summer after sophomore year?

2. What was Barack's grandmother's name?

3. How did Obama gain the approval of the neighborhood kids?

4. What was the name of the TWC's son?

5. Why did Obama freeze at her first piano recital?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Obama's ideas about marriage differ from Barack's?

2. What kept Barack from returning to Illinois to vote on a major crime bill?

3. What program was Obama enlisted into while at Bryn Mawr?

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

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

6. What happened when Obama talked to a group of neighborhood girls while at her grandparents' house?

7. How did Obama's job at Sidley & Austin change her life?

8. What happened at Obama's first piano recital?

9. Why did Obama avoid telling her parents about the school trip to Paris?

10. Who were Barack Obama's parents?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay in which you analyze politics from Michelle Obama's perspective. How does Obama feel about politics? Use specific examples from the text to support your analysis.

Essay Topic 2

Michelle Obama writes that she is extremely grateful to her parents for the way that they raised her. What about her parent's parenting methods helped to shape her as a person, and did they influence her own methods as a mother? If so, how?

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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