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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the poet describe topping the letter "J" with in "The Beginning"?
2. When was the American Civil War declared?
3. Where is Dorothy's seamstress that makes her dresses and gloves described in "The Training"?
4. How did Jacqueline Woodson's Uncle Odell die?
5. Who is described as looking down on the South for its inequality in "Journey"?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is the Woodsons' lineage described in "The Woodsons of Ohio"?
2. How is life in Greenville described in the poem "Ohio Behind Us"?
3. How are the poet's parents described in "Second Daughter’s Second Day on Earth"?
4. How is the house described in "The Ghosts of the Nelsonville House"? Where is Nelsonville?
5. When and where does the author describe her paternal great-great-grandfather's birth in "It’ll Be Scary Sometimes"?
6. Who is the focus of the poem "Football Dreams"? What is related in this narrative?
7. What conflict is described in the poem "A Girl Named Jack"?
8. Who are the people described in "The Almost Friends"?
9. How does the author describe her grandmother's rules in "The Right Way to Speak"?
10. How is Odell described in the poem "Uncle Odell"? Who was named for Odell?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss free verse versus blank verse. What form are the poems of Brown Girl Dreaming? What form do haikus take? What poems from the anthology are written in traditional haiku format?
Essay Topic 2
Describe and discuss segregation in the South in 1963 and the setting of Greenville, South Carolina, at this time. How big was Greenville? How has the city changed in the past 50 years? When was Greenville desegregated?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the comparisons in the book of the North and South. Where was Jacqueline Woodson born? Where did she spend her summers growing up? What place in Jackie's life felt the most like "home" to her? Why?
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