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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 school did Walker describe her father sending her alone to walk to in Part 1?
(a) Preschool.
(b) Elementary.
(c) Grammar.
(d) Military.

2. Walker writes in Part 3 that her favorite uncle was not afraid to do what, as opposed to the rest of her Jewish family?
(a) Go hunting.
(b) Speak to her.
(c) Go camping.
(d) Touch her.

3. What non-profit organization aiming to encourage young women to get involved in activism and leadership roles was co-founded by Rebecca Walker?
(a) Third Wave Foundation.
(b) Fed Up Inc.
(c) The Sensitivity Society.
(d) Woman Power International.

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?
(a) A poker night.
(b) A bachelor party.
(c) A birthday party.
(d) Thanksgiving dinner.

5. In what year did Alice Walker win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction?
(a) 1977.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1979.

Short Answer Questions

1. What show did Walker describe sneaking into her parents' room to watch in Part 1?

2. Where did Walker move with her mother following her parents' divorce?

3. Who did Walker realize her mother never visited in Part 3?

4. What was the name of Rebecca Walker's first boyfriend?

5. How many memoirs has Rebecca Walker written?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. When did Walker lose her virginity? How did she feel about it?

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