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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 would Walker often do in order to avoid uncomfortable feelings when visiting her extended family in Part 3?
(a) Wait in the car.
(b) Go for long walks.
(c) Play with the dog.
(d) Lock herself in the bathroom.

2. Rebecca Walker was born how long after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.?
(a) 12 days.
(b) 17 months.
(c) 7 weeks.
(d) 4 hours.

3. Where did Walker's family move after leaving the south?
(a) Long Island.
(b) Manhattan.
(c) Brooklyn.
(d) The Bronx.

4. Within how much time after Walker first met her did Mel Leventhal's second wife move in with him?
(a) Four months.
(b) One year.
(c) Two weeks.
(d) Two years.

5. With whom did Bethany live?
(a) Her grandmother.
(b) Her sister.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Rebecca Walker's uncle Bobby live?

2. Where did Walker purchase a bike in Part 6?

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

4. What non-profit organization aiming to encourage young women to get involved in activism and leadership roles was co-founded by Rebecca Walker?

5. What did Louisa study?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. How did Walker avoid uncomfortable feelings around her extended family?

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

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

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

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