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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 belief did Walker's parents reject, as described in Part 2?

2. Where was Alice Walker born?

3. Of what heritage is Rebecca Walker's father?

4. Rebecca Walker was born how long after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the narrative style of the memoir. How does Walker describe her past in the opening of the narrative?

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

3. Where did Walker go after leaving Uncle Bobby's in Part 5? How did she feel about this move?

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

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

6. What can be discerned of Walker's parents and the setting she was born into in Part 1?

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

8. When did Walker first meet her father's second wife? How does she describe this visit?

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

10. How was Walker's relationship with her mother in early adolescence? What insecurities did she have?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe Walker's relationship with her extended paternal family. Where were the Leventhals from originally? How was Great Grandmother Jennie described in the text?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Describe the effects of her parents' divorce on the young Walker. At what age did Rebecca's mother "move into" her bedroom? How did Rebecca understand the tension in her home?

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