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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 memoirs has Rebecca Walker written?
(a) 7.
(b) 2.
(c) 8.
(d) 14.

2. What is the name of Alice Walker's first novel?
(a) The Life and Times of Grange Copeland.
(b) The Third Life of Grange Copeland.
(c) Grange Copeland Had a Hard Life.
(d) Who was Grange Copeland?

3. Michael is at least how many years older than Rebecca Walker?
(a) 6.
(b) 9.
(c) 4.
(d) 12.

4. Alice Walker was the youngest of how many children?
(a) 5.
(b) 10.
(c) 6.
(d) 8.

5. How long did Walker spend living with each parent, as per the custody agreement in Part 5?
(a) 9 months.
(b) 3 years.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 2 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom did Bethany live?

2. In what class play did Walker land a lead role in Part 4?

3. What did Walker long to be recognized as in Part 2?

4. What is the name of Rebecca Walker's father?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Walker describe the beginning of her parents' dissolution of marriage in Part 4?

2. How did Walker avoid uncomfortable feelings around her extended family?

3. How did Walker choose a bike? Who almost stole it in Part 6?

4. What can be discerned of Walker's parents and the setting she was born into in Part 1?

5. How did Walker describe feeling around Michael in Part 6?

6. Where does the theme of forced independence arise in the text? How?

7. How does Walker describe her uncle Jackie? What did she appreciate about him?

8. How does Walker describe her parents' relationship in retrospect in Part 4?

9. What trip did Bethany and Rebecca Walker take together in Part 5?

10. Where did Walker go after leaving Uncle Bobby's in Part 5? How did she feel about this move?

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