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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 did Walker's parents work together on while living in Mississippi?
(a) The right to bear arms.
(b) Women's rights.
(c) Civil rights.
(d) Religious rights.

2. In what class play did Walker land a lead role in Part 4?
(a) The Sound of Music.
(b) West Side Story.
(c) The Wizard of Oz.
(d) Annie.

3. What details does Walker describe recalling in vivid detail about her childhood move from the south?
(a) The long drive.
(b) Packing.
(c) Getting tape in her hair.
(d) The truck breaking down.

4. For how long did Walker not see her mother after moving with her father in Part 5?
(a) 3 years.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 4 years.
(d) Several months.

5. What is the name of Rebecca Walker's father?
(a) Mel Leventhal.
(b) John Wellington.
(c) Herman Schuster.
(d) Jefferson Mills.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Alice Walker graduate from college?

2. For what novel did Rebecca Walker's mother win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction?

3. What did Walker lie about to the neighborhood boy she began going out with in Part 6?

4. In Part 1, Walker pictures herself as a baby as the character in a movie or a poem by whom?

5. What did Walker's cousins refer to some of her habits in Part 5?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Walker open Part 2 of the book with? What is shared?

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

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

4. How did Walker describe her visits to her grandmother's in Part 2?

5. How does Walker describe her uncle Bobby?

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

7. How did Walker fit in at the school in Washington, D.C. in Part 5?

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

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

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

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