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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 belief did Walker's parents reject, as described in Part 2?
(a) Love keeps a family strong.
(b) The pen is mightier than the sword.
(c) Blood is thicker than water.
(d) Home is where the heart is.

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

3. What boy did Walker develop a crush on at her new school in Part 4?
(a) Bryan.
(b) Brandon.
(c) Byron.
(d) Brad.

4. Walker writes in Part 6 that being around Michael made her feel what?
(a) Annoyed.
(b) Womanly.
(c) Relieved.
(d) Awkward.

5. How did Walker's paternal grandmother treat Walker in her childhood?
(a) Beat her.
(b) Spoiled her.
(c) Neglected her.
(d) Punished her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Alice Walker's first novel?

2. Where was Alice Walker born?

3. What was Rebecca Walker's aunt unable to do with Walker's hair in Part 5?

4. Within how much time after Walker first met her did Mel Leventhal's second wife move in with him?

5. When was Walker's book To be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism published?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Walker wonder about her family connections in Part 2?

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

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

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

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

7. What book did Walker read as an adolescent which impacted her greatly? How was her relationship with her stepmother during this time?

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

9. What did Walker realize about her mother and her uncle Jackie in Part 3?

10. How does Walker describe her uncle Bobby?

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