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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What creatures "keep going / as though they know their song / is our lullaby" in the poem "Lullaby"?
(a) Crickets.
(b) Blue jays.
(c) Hummingbirds.
(d) Frogs.

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) Jamie and her sisters.
(b) Cora and her sisters.
(c) Megan and her brothers.
(d) Phil and his sisters.

3. Who was Thomas Woodson's father?
(a) Walt Whitman.
(b) Ben Franklin.
(c) Abraham Lincoln.
(d) Thomas Jefferson.

4. What breakfast does the poet describe eating in "Bible Times"?
(a) Bacon and eggs.
(b) Cereal.
(c) Pancakes.
(d) Buttered biscuits.

5. Where is Dorothy's seamstress that makes her dresses and gloves described in "The Training"?
(a) Chattanooga.
(b) Memphis.
(c) New York.
(d) Charleston.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Jacqueline's ancestor Thomas Woodson from?

2. What flavor ice-cream is described as Gunnar's favorite in "The Candy Lady"?

3. What is Grace Woodson's relationship to Jacqueline?

4. Who was Thomas Woodson's mother?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the symbolic image that concludes the poem "Second Daughter’s Second Day on Earth"? What is symbolized in this imagery?

2. What event is described in the poem "The Candy Lady"?

3. How does the author establish the social and political atmosphere into which she was born in "Second Daughter’s Second Day on Earth"?

4. How is the unfolding Civil Rights Movement described in the poem "South Carolina at War"?

5. How does the author describe her grandmother's rules in "The Right Way to Speak"?

6. How is the house described in "The Ghosts of the Nelsonville House"? Where is Nelsonville?

7. What conflict is described in the poem "A Girl Named Jack"?

8. How does the author describe the names in her family in "Family Names"?

9. When and where does the author describe her paternal great-great-grandfather's birth in "It’ll Be Scary Sometimes"?

10. What story is related from Grandma Georgiana's perspective in "Other People’s Memory"?

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