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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. Whose dream of a ladder to heaven is described in "Bible Times"?
(a) Peter's.
(b) Moses's.
(c) Jacob's.
(d) Abel's.
2. What is the name of Jacqueline Woodson's father?
(a) John Robert Woodson.
(b) Jack Austin Woodson.
(c) James Allen Woodson.
(d) Peter Paul Woodson.
3. Who was Thomas Woodson's father?
(a) Ben Franklin.
(b) Abraham Lincoln.
(c) Walt Whitman.
(d) Thomas Jefferson.
4. How old is Dell described as in "The Beginning"?
(a) 2.
(b) 9.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.
5. What kind of branch has Jackie's mother stripped to use as a switch in the poem "The Right Way to Speak"?
(a) A weeping willow branch.
(b) An elm tree branch.
(c) A rose-bush branch.
(d) A sage-brush branch.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the name of Mary Anne Woodson's sister who was less than a year older than her?
2. Where was Jacqueline's ancestor Thomas Woodson from?
3. When was Jacqueline Woodson born?
4. What book of essays did James Baldwin publish in 1963?
5. What health problem did the boy from up the road suffer from in "The Almost Friends"?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who are the people described in "The Almost Friends"?
2. How does the author describe her siblings in the poems "The Reader" and "Hope" from Part 1?
3. How is "Daywork" described in the poem with the same name? Who took on daywork to support Jackie and her siblings when they were growing up?
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. How is the unfolding Civil Rights Movement described in the poem "South Carolina at War"?
7. What event is described in the poem "The Candy Lady"?
8. How is the house described in "The Ghosts of the Nelsonville House"? Where is Nelsonville?
9. How are the poet's parents described in "Second Daughter’s Second Day on Earth"?
10. How is life in Greenville described in the poem "Ohio Behind Us"?
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