View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Anne lose her faith in in this chapter?

2. How does Anne encourage blacks to vote?

3. Where are the students gathered at the beginning of the chapter?

4. What does Anne celebrate in this chapter?

5. Where does Anne go with Joan?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Mississippi project?

2. What is college like for Anne?

3. How does O'Quinn's death affect Anne?

4. What ruins Anne's graduation?

5. How does Keemp and Anne's relationship develop?

6. How has Mr. and Mrs. Chinn's situation changed in the final chapter?

7. How does Anne show her strong nature when she joins the basketball team in Chapter 17?

8. Describe the march in Chapter 29.

9. Why is the car ride with Reverend King so tense?

10. Why did Leonara have to leave the plantation where she lived?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why did President Kennedy represent great hope for Afro-Americans? How did his death affect the Afro-American community? How do you think things would have been different if President Kennedy had lived?

Essay Topic 2

Choose one of the famous people Anne Moody depicts in the book and examine his/her impact on the Civil Rights Movement.

1) What were his/her beliefs?

2) How did he/she communicate their beleifs to the nature?

3) What impact did he/she have on the Civil Rights movement?

Essay Topic 3

What major events had a profound affect on Moody's life and how did they change her? What does Moody still have to learn by the end of the book?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 735 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample