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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What school did Walker describe her father sending her alone to walk to in Part 1?
(a) Grammar.
(b) Military.
(c) Preschool.
(d) Elementary.

2. To whom did Rebecca Walker write letters in Part 2 in addition to her babysitter?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Her brother.

3. What were state and local laws in the United States which mandated racial segregation in all public facilities, with a supposedly "separate but equal" status for black Americans?
(a) Seperation of Chuch and State.
(b) Jim Crow laws.
(c) Roe vs. Wade.
(d) Murphy's law.

4. What was the name of the childhood babysitter Rebecca wrote to in Part 2?
(a) Mabel.
(b) Suzy.
(c) Louisa.
(d) Marsha.

5. In what year did Alice Walker win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1977.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Walker write of bathing for the last time with her father in Part 3?

2. Walker's paternal grandmother gave her a generous allowance for what?

3. In what year was Alice Walker born?

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

5. What is the name of Rebecca Walker's mother?

(see the answer key)

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