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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. What friend of Walker's in San Francisco was a pretty white model?
(a) Jennie.
(b) Katie.
(c) Kimberly.
(d) Lisa.

2. What kind of building did Mel Leventhal live in with his second wife?
(a) A brownstone.
(b) A high-rise.
(c) A country cottage.
(d) An office building.

3. In Part 1, Walker pictures herself as a baby as the character in a movie or a poem by whom?
(a) Jim Morrison.
(b) Langston Hughes.
(c) Henry David Thoreau.
(d) Allen Ginsburg.

4. What was the name of Rebecca Walker's cousin who lived in Boston?
(a) Linda.
(b) Lisa.
(c) Patty.
(d) Rebecca.

5. When was Walker's book To be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism published?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1996.
(c) 1994.
(d) 1999.

Short Answer Questions

1. What school play did Walker want to be a part of in Part 5 but found she failed to gain acceptance from the black girls that appeared to be running the show?

2. What group describes itself as "a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, stop new wars, and redirect our resources into healthcare, education, green jobs and other life-affirming activities"?

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

4. 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?

5. What was the name of Walker's paternal great-grandmother?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What did Walker imagine Jackie's reaction would be of her home? How does she view her cousins today?

4. Why did Walker most relate to her uncle Jackie?

5. How does Walker describe Grandma Miriam in Part 1?

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

7. What other relative did Walker describe at Grandma Miriam's house?

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

9. What societal changes had an impact on Walker's parents' marriage?

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

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