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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. In what year did Alice Walker win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction?
2. Where did Walker write of bathing for the last time with her father in Part 3?
3. Where did Rebecca Walker's uncle Bobby live?
4. What school play did Walker want to be a part of in Part 5 but found she failed to gain acceptance from the black girls that appeared to be running the show?
5. What show did Walker describe sneaking into her parents' room to watch in Part 1?
Short Essay Questions
1. What can be discerned of Walker's parents and the setting she was born into in Part 1?
2. Describe the narrative style of the memoir. How does Walker describe her past in the opening of the narrative?
3. How did Walker describe her visits to her grandmother's in Part 2?
4. How does Walker describe her uncle Jackie? What did she appreciate about him?
5. How does Walker describe her first birthday in Part 1? What does she urge the reader to do on their own?
6. How did Walker choose a bike? Who almost stole it in Part 6?
7. How does Walker describe the beginning of her parents' dissolution of marriage in Part 4?
8. Describe some of the tender moments of Walker's early childhood. What kind things did her parents do for her?
9. How did Walker's mother change through the 1970s?
10. What did Walker realize about her mother and her uncle Jackie in Part 3?
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
Discuss the style and major themes in Walker's work as well as her other achievements and biographical history. What impact did Walker's childhood environment play on her work?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the themes of racism and isolation in the narrative. From what age did Rebecca Walker feel like an outsider? How did she react to feeling uncomfortable around her paternal family?
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