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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. When did Rebecca Walker graduate from college?
2. How many black girls were at the summer camp Walker attended in Part 8?
3. What was the name of the summer camp Walker attended in Part 8?
4. Where did Walker describe feeding the monkeys and communing with them in the forests in Part 15?
5. What did Walker and her friends refer to the richest and snobbiest of the girls at summer camp in Part 8?
Short Essay Questions
1. What traveling adventures does Walker describe in Part 16?
2. Who became Walker's friends at 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 did Walker react when she first menstruated in Part 9?
5. What does Walker describe as a result of constantly moving around in her adult life?
6. Where did Walker choose to attend high school in Part 10? What did she experience there?
7. What memory does Walker close the book with? How does she feel in conclusion?
8. When did Walker have an abortion? How does she describe the experience?
9. What bad experience did Walker have in Part 9? Who assisted her?
10. Where did Walker apply to school after having an abortion? How did her mother assist her?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
Describe the area of the Bronx where Walker and her mother relocated in Part 4. How does Walker describe the neighborhood and apartment in comparison to her Brooklyn home with her father? How did she cope with the transition?
Essay Topic 3
Compare and contrast Rebecca Walker's relationships with her mother's family and with her father's. Did Walker feel as though she fit in more with her white family or her black family? Why?
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