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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 color is the brother's comb in Blanche Woodbury's poem, "My Brother"?

2. Where are Frank and Uncle Karl going to go on a trip when Frank refused to join him?

3. Who else does Jude Brister discover her father had molested?

4. What does Marty O. Dyke accuse her father of in her poem?

5. Yarrow Morgan is born in _____________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Blanche Woodbury's brother blame her for their mother's illness?

2. What events does Jean Monroe describe in "California Daughter/1950"?

3. What was Jude Brister's childhood like?

4. What was Maggie Hoyal's childhood like and what caused her to write about her abuse?

5. What events occur before Mr. Freeman rapes Maya Angelou?

6. What happens in "These Are the Things I remember" when Maggie tells her mother about what her father did to her?

7. What led Jean Monroe to finally tell her mother about her father's abuse?

8. What does Lynn Swenson come to understand about her mother as she comes to term with her own abuse?

9. What is Marty O. Dyke's poem "Yeah I'm Blaming You" about?

10. What is some of the success Maya Angelou has experienced in her life?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did these experiences serve as a lens for both how these women saw the world and themselves? What did these women gain from these experiences?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss several pieces in terms of the role setting plays in the narrative of the abuse. Give specific examples from each piece that you discuss.

Essay Topic 3

What is the paradox that often exists for children who experienced sexual abuse? How does this paradox affect both how they endure the abuse and how they handle the aftermath?

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