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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 term denotes a person with one white parent and one black parent, or more broadly, a person of mixed black and white ancestry?
(a) Polka dot.
(b) Smore.
(c) Mulatto.
(d) Barcode.

2. Where did Rebecca Walker graduate from college?
(a) Mississippi State.
(b) Rutgers.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Yale University.

3. What did Walker do when her friend Lisa came to tell her goodbye in Part 7?
(a) Wept loudly.
(b) Hugged her goodbye.
(c) Didn't answer the door.
(d) Asked Lisa to come with her.

4. Where did Walker's friend suggest they go for birth control in Part 7?
(a) A seminar.
(b) The county building.
(c) Planned Parenthood.
(d) The drug store.

5. As an adult, Walker confesses that she still had no what?
(a) Randomness.
(b) Responsibility.
(c) Routine.
(d) Rebelliousness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who came to Walker's rescue after a bad drug trip in Part 9?

2. Walker writes in Part 8 that she realizes her parents raised her to expect what?

3. In its first year, Third Wave Foundation initiated a campaign that registered over how many new voters across the United States?

4. As a result of the varied people and occurrences in her life, Walker closes the memoir by saying that she refuses to do what?

5. What white boy did Walker befriend in high school who she describes as having "acted black"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Walker write of envying in Part 10? Why?

2. Where did Walker choose to attend high school in Part 10? What did she experience there?

3. Where did Walker attend summer camp in Part 8? Who did she avoid at the camp and why?

4. What bad experience did Walker have in Part 9? Who assisted her?

5. When did Walker have an abortion? How does she describe the experience?

6. Who suggested Walker go to Planned Parenthood in Part 7? Why?

7. Where did Walker most hang out while living with her father in the Bronx in Part 9? Why?

8. How does Walker describe her memory in the end of Part 8?

9. How did Walker and Andrew continue seeing one another in Part 14? What was Walker's experience meeting Andrew's friends like?

10. What traveling adventures does Walker describe in Part 16?

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