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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 was William J. Woodson's relationship to Jacqueline?

2. Where did Mary Anne's family live in South Carolina?

3. What word has Hope said, causing his mother to hit him with a switch, in the poem "The Right Way to Speak"?

4. When was Malcolm X born?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author describe her feelings about the Bible and Christianity in "Bible Times"?

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

3. Who is the focus of the poem "Football Dreams"? What is related in this narrative?

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

5. How is the Woodsons' lineage described in "The Woodsons of Ohio"?

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

7. 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?

8. How does the author describe her siblings in the poems "The Reader" and "Hope" from Part 1?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the millenarian restorationist Christian denomination known as the Jehovah’s Witnesses. When were the Jehovah’s Witnesses originated? What are their belief systems? How do they differ from other Christian denominations? What influences did Jackie's faith have on her as a child?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the significance of the names in Jackie’s family as demonstrated in “Family Names.” Why did Gunnar’s family have unusual names? How did Grandma Georgiana’s family differ? What is the significance of Jackie's name and those of her siblings?

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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