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

2. What did Walker do when her friend Lisa came to tell her goodbye in Part 7?

3. Walker compares her memory in Part 8 to what?

4. What term refers to a person who disagrees, especially one who disagrees with the government?

5. Whenever Alice and Rebecca Walker would have moments of strive in Part 10, what would her mother do?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Who suggested Walker go to Planned Parenthood in Part 7? Why?

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

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

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

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

10. Who became Walker's friends at summer camp in Part 8?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Define and identify the narrative voice, tense and style of the memoir in Part 1. In what person is the narrative written?

Essay Topic 2

Describe Walker's first move to San Francisco and the friendships she formed there. How old was Walker at this time?

Essay Topic 3

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

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