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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. When did Rosa Parks take a stand by refusing to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama?
(a) March 12, 1969.
(b) December 1, 1955.
(c) July 3, 1958.
(d) August 13, 1959.

2. What line is repeated several times in the poem "The Almost Friends"?
(a) "We know better than that."
(b) "I heard her crying."
(c) "We walked to town, alone."
(d) "We would soon find out."

3. From where did the owner of the fabric store in Greenville know Georgiana?
(a) Anderson.
(b) Oxford.
(c) Memphis.
(d) Malvern.

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

5. What did Jackie and her siblings use to soothe Georgina's feet at night?
(a) Epsom salt.
(b) Vinegar.
(c) Toothpaste.
(d) Ice water.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Jacqueline Woodson born?

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"?

3. Who is described as looking down on the South for its inequality in "Journey"?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the author describe calling her grandfather in "Gunnar's Children"? How does she describe her feelings for her grandfather?

3. Into what genres does Brown Girl Dreaming fall? How are these genres defined?

4. How is the history of slavery described in Jackie's maternal grandparents' ancestry in "The Garden"?

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

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

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

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

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

10. How does the author describe her ancestry in "February 12, 1963"?

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