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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Mary Anne's family live in South Carolina?
(a) Charleston.
(b) Columbia.
(c) Myrtle Beach.
(d) Greenville.

2. What form are the poems of Brown Girl Dreaming?
(a) Iambic pentameter.
(b) Free verse.
(c) Blank verse.
(d) Haiku.

3. How does Jacqueline Woodson describe her infant fists in "Second Daughter's Second Day on Earth"?
(a) "Clenched in rage."
(b) "Shaking from fear and sorrow."
(c) "Ready to change the world."
(d) "Clenched in determination and glory."

4. Where was Jacqueline's ancestor Thomas Woodson from?
(a) Harlem, New York.
(b) Brooklyn, New York.
(c) Chillicothe, Ohio.
(d) Oxford, Mississippi.

5. What school does Jackie describe attending in "First Grade"?
(a) P.S. 106.
(b) Harlem Elementary.
(c) P.S. 56.
(d) P.S. 203.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Uncle Robert promise to take Jackie and her siblings in the poem "Far Rockaway"?

2. What color is the home of the Woodsons described as in "The Ghosts of the Nelsonville House"?

3. What did Jacqueline come to call her maternal grandfather when living with him, according to the narrative of "Gunnar's Children"?

4. Where did Jackie go when the pledge of allegiance was said in class in first grade?

5. In what language did Gunnar ask Jackie to speak to him, in "Daddy This Time"?

(see the answer key)

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