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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 find a stack of while babysitting for a Jewish family in Part 9?
(a) Old paintings.
(b) Twenty dollar bills.
(c) Playboy magazines.
(d) Tires.

2. With whom did Rebecca Walker go to live at the end of sixth grade?
(a) Her grandmother.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her uncle.

3. Walker writes that constantly moving requires a certain sort of what?
(a) Income.
(b) Frailty.
(c) Inheritance.
(d) Amnesia.

4. What grade was Walker beginning in Part 7?
(a) Eighth.
(b) Fourth.
(c) Sixth.
(d) Seventh.

5. What does Walker claim all black people desire to have in Part 11?
(a) Rhythm.
(b) Money.
(c) A soulmate.
(d) Long lives.

Short Answer 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?

2. Whose funeral does Walker describe in Part 17?

3. What friend of Walker's taught her how to steal in sixth grade?

4. How old was Rebecca Walker when she switched schools in Part 10?

5. What new best friend did Walker meet at camp in Part 8?

Short Essay Questions

1. How had Walker changed when she returned to live with her mother in Part 10? Why?

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

3. How does Walker describe her inner war and rhythm in Part 11?

4. How did Walker fit in at the Urban School? Who did she most relate to and why?

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

6. How does Walker describe the cliquishness at the summer camp in Part 8?

7. When did Walker's resentment for her stepmother increase? Why?

8. What older friends did Walker encounter in Part 7? How old was she at this time?

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

10. Where did Walker apply to school after having an abortion? How did her mother assist her?

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