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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the maiden name of Jacqueline Woodson's mother?
(a) Jackson.
(b) Rose.
(c) Irby.
(d) Smith.

2. How did Jacqueline Woodson's family travel from Ohio to South Carolina each winter when she was young?
(a) By bus.
(b) By airplane.
(c) By train.
(d) By car.

3. What is the name of Jacqueline Woodson's father?
(a) Peter Paul Woodson.
(b) Jack Austin Woodson.
(c) John Robert Woodson.
(d) James Allen Woodson.

4. What kind of branch has Jackie's mother stripped to use as a switch in the poem "The Right Way to Speak"?
(a) A sage-brush branch.
(b) A rose-bush branch.
(c) A weeping willow branch.
(d) An elm tree branch.

5. Along what river did the Woodsons travel on their trips from Ohio to South Carolina?
(a) The Columbus River.
(b) The Klamath River.
(c) The Hocking River.
(d) The Arkansas River.

Short Answer Questions

1. What breakfast does the poet describe eating in "Bible Times"?

2. How old does Jacqueline Woodson describe herself in the poem "The Beginning"?

3. What form are the poems of Brown Girl Dreaming?

4. How old was Jacqueline Woodson when her parents separated?

5. What did Georgina tell her grandchildren never to do?

(see the answer key)

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