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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. Where did Walker write of bathing for the last time with her father in Part 3?
(a) In the tub.
(b) In the pool.
(c) In the sink.
(d) In the jacuzzi.

2. What friend of Rebecca Walker's did she travel around the city by bus with in fifth grade?
(a) Betsy.
(b) Bethany.
(c) Brittney.
(d) Brianna.

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

4. Who sent Rebecca Walker money for a bike in Part 6?
(a) Grandma Miriam.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her uncle.
(d) Her aunt.

5. What is the name of Rebecca Walker's mother?
(a) Shannon Walker.
(b) Alice Walker.
(c) Jennifer Walker.
(d) Melissa Walker.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book so affected Walker that she had nightmares for weeks after reading it in Part 5?

2. What did Walker's father host in the house because he had to stay home to protect this family from a threat by the Klan in Part 1?

3. What race is Rebecca Walker's mother?

4. To whom did Rebecca Walker write letters in Part 2 in addition to her babysitter?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the narrative style of the memoir. How does Walker describe her past in the opening of the narrative?

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

4. When did Walker first meet her father's second wife? How does she describe this visit?

5. What boy did Walker like at her new school in Part 4? Who did she tell?

6. How was Walker's relationship with her mother in early adolescence? What insecurities did she have?

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

8. What symbolic depiction does Walker paint of her father in Part 3?

9. What does Walker describe of her memories of moving to Brooklyn in Part 2?

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

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