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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the focus of the poem "The Reader"?
(a) Mary Anne.
(b) Dell.
(c) Georgiana.
(d) Hope.

2. Who are the people that lived across the road from Jackie's grandmother and who she warned them to stay away from in the poem "The Almost Friends"?
(a) Phil and his sisters.
(b) Megan and her brothers.
(c) Jamie and her sisters.
(d) Cora and her sisters.

3. When was Martin Luther King, Jr. born?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1919.

4. What book of essays did James Baldwin publish in 1963?
(a) The Doctor's Tale.
(b) The Lost Way North.
(c) The Road Within.
(d) The Fire Next Time.

5. What sport did Jack Woodson play in high school and college?
(a) Basketball.
(b) Football.
(c) Hockey.
(d) Baseball.

Short Answer Questions

1. What animals are described as making noise at the time of Jacqueline's birth in "Other People's Memory"?

2. When was Jacqueline Woodson born?

3. What title of address did Jackie's mother forbid her children to use?

4. Where had Mary Anne's sister recently moved in the poem "Ohio Behind Us"?

5. During what years was John F. Kennedy President of the United States?

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