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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Walker's father mugged in Part 2?
(a) Leaving the train.
(b) In an alley.
(c) At the grocery store.
(d) Going to church.

2. How did Rebecca Walker's paternal grandmother treat Walker's mother?
(a) Indifferently.
(b) Adoringly.
(c) Lovingly.
(d) Hatefully.

3. Walker's father believed that his grandmother did not react to people because of having been traumatized where?
(a) Communist Russia.
(b) Nazi Germany.
(c) London, England.
(d) Warsaw, Poland.

4. Within how much time after Walker first met her did Mel Leventhal's second wife move in with him?
(a) Two years.
(b) One year.
(c) Four months.
(d) Two weeks.

5. Where did Walker's family move after leaving the south?
(a) Brooklyn.
(b) Manhattan.
(c) The Bronx.
(d) Long Island.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Rebecca Walker born?

2. What was the name of the childhood babysitter Rebecca wrote to in Part 2?

3. For what novel did Rebecca Walker's mother win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction?

4. Who did Walker credit with having taught her to "fit in" in Part 2?

5. In what year did Rebecca Walker's parents marry?

(see the answer key)

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