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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Alice Walker's first novel?

2. In what year did Rebecca Walker's parents marry?

3. Who stood up for Walker when two girls tried to steal her bike in Part 6?

4. How many memoirs has Rebecca Walker written?

5. On Rebecca Walker's first birthday, her mother fed her two of her favorite foods, chitterlings and what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Walker open Part 2 of the book with? What is shared?

2. How does Walker describe her uncle Jackie? What did she appreciate about him?

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

4. Why did Walker most relate to her uncle Jackie?

5. What did Walker admire about her new older friends in San Francisco in Part 6? Who were they?

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

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

8. How does Walker describe her first birthday in Part 1? What does she urge the reader to do on their own?

9. What did Colleen and Michael admire in Walker? What did she admire of them?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe Walker's favorite uncle, Jackie. On whose side of Walker's family was Jackie a member? What about this uncle did Walker feel she could relate to? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the shifting cultural climate Walker experienced in her youth. In what ways did the civil rights movement change after the death of Martin Luther King, Jr.? How were interracial couples viewed by the advocates of Black Power?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the life and career of Alice Walker. Where was she born? How did she become involved in civil rights activism?

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