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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term refers to a person who disagrees, especially one who disagrees with the government?
(a) Defense attorney.
(b) Radical.
(c) Dissident.
(d) Liberal.

2. Where did Walker and her friend witness a mob where violent fighting broke out in Part 7?
(a) A basketball game.
(b) A football game.
(c) A book reading.
(d) A senior party.

3. Walker chose to attend the high school that who had graduated from in Part 10?
(a) Glenn.
(b) Donald.
(c) Roger.
(d) Michael.

4. What did Walker find a stack of while babysitting for a Jewish family in Part 9?
(a) Old paintings.
(b) Twenty dollar bills.
(c) Tires.
(d) Playboy magazines.

5. As an adult, Walker confesses in Part 10 that she envies whose predictable life?
(a) Her stepsister's.
(b) Her neighbor's.
(c) Her co-worker's.
(d) Her mother's.

6. Michael told Walker in Part 12 that the Urban School brought out the what in her?
(a) Scholar.
(b) White girl.
(c) Jew.
(d) Artist.

7. How old was Rebecca Walker when she switched schools in Part 10?
(a) 15.
(b) 12.
(c) 13.
(d) 14.

8. What best friend of Walker's also dated Dominicans in Part 9?
(a) Melissa.
(b) Connie.
(c) Jennifer.
(d) Samantha.

9. What college-age counselor at the summer camp defended Walker's right to be a captain in Part 8?
(a) Stephanie.
(b) Rebecca.
(c) Josephine.
(d) Mary.

10. What is the name of the crew-person Walker begins dating while working on a film in Part 13?
(a) Samuel.
(b) Andrew.
(c) James.
(d) Matthew.

11. When did Walker's father come to San Francisco for the first time?
(a) For a family reunion.
(b) Walker's high school graduation.
(c) To hear a speach.
(d) Walker's marraige.

12. What age was Rebecca Walker when she adopted her mother's last name?
(a) 25.
(b) 22.
(c) 18.
(d) 23.

13. What did Walker do when her friend Lisa came to tell her goodbye in Part 7?
(a) Wept loudly.
(b) Asked Lisa to come with her.
(c) Didn't answer the door.
(d) Hugged her goodbye.

14. Alice Walker kept a photograph of a direct relative who was a what?
(a) Slave owner.
(b) Shop keeper.
(c) Slave.
(d) Army General.

15. What did Walker and her friends refer to the richest and snobbiest of the girls at summer camp in Part 8?
(a) JAPs.
(b) CADs.
(c) ARCs.
(d) LNDs.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the headmaster of the private school school informed Alice and Rebecca Walker on a wrongful assumption that the school offered no financial aid, what did Alice do?

2. Whose funeral does Walker describe in Part 17?

3. What white boy did Walker befriend in high school who she describes as having "acted black"?

4. Walker began to realize in high school that her multicultural background caused her to be perceived as intimidating to whites and what to blacks?

5. What term denotes a person with one white parent and one black parent, or more broadly, a person of mixed black and white ancestry?

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