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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. In order to explain her skin at the new and very non-diverse school in Part 9, Walker claimed to be from where?
(a) Poland.
(b) Spain.
(c) China.
(d) Romania.

2. Where did Walker's father live in the beginning of Part 9?
(a) Buffalo.
(b) The Bronx.
(c) Manhattan.
(d) Long Island.

3. As an adult, Walker confesses in Part 10 that she envies whose predictable life?
(a) Her co-worker's.
(b) Her stepsister's.
(c) Her neighbor's.
(d) Her mother's.

4. How many black girls were at the summer camp Walker attended in Part 8?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 0.

5. When the headmaster of the private school school informed Alice and Rebecca Walker on a wrongful assumption that the school offered no financial aid, what did Alice do?
(a) Screamed.
(b) Filed a complaint.
(c) Stormed out.
(d) Broke things.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Alice Walker kept a photograph of a direct relative who was a what?

3. Walker describes that when she travels with her mother, they travel as what?

4. Who guided Walker through many of the milestones in a young woman's life, including her first period?

5. What new boyfriend did Walker date at her new school in Part 9?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How did Walker react when she first menstruated in Part 9?

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