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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 helped Tara's mother's headaches?

2. Why did Tara's mother take the family to Arizona in "Apache Women"?

3. Which word best describes Tara's father?

4. How did Tara feel she should behave in Tyler's presence?

5. What age was Tara when her mother stopped teaching her?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Tara's father's relationship with his mother?

2. What did Tara worry would happen if she left the mountain?

3. What was Tara's father's problem with public education?

4. Why did Tara choose to stay home instead of go to Arizona?

5. What safety measures did Tara's father strip from her?

6. What made Tara's family different from other families she knew?

7. Why did Tara have trouble trusting her mother?

8. How did Tara's parents support her decision to audition for Annie?

9. Which New Age philosophy did Tara's mother practice?

10. What did Tara worry about when Tyler decided to go to college?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why did Tara and some of her siblings not have birth certificates? Explain the methods Tara's mother employed to get the documents. How was Tara's identity connected to her legitimacy on paper?

Essay Topic 2

Why is it that the more Tara learns about the world the less power her parents have over her? In what ways do her father's fears that society will change his children become true for Tara? Is she corrupted or enlightened?

Essay Topic 3

Tara determined that decisions and events shape lives. How was her life shaped by the beliefs and traditions in her family? What examples did Tara have of her older siblings breaking free of the family?

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