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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 denomination is Honor Moore's father a minister in?

2. How many abusive incidents does Jade Gates endure before the age of fourteen?

3. Billie Holiday is also known as ________.

4. What is the girl looking at inside the fence in "Street Fair"?

5. Where does Daddy Kanagy molest Karen Asherah again?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens in the story "Trophy Girl"?

2. Under what circumstances does Billie Holiday end up in a bedroom with the man who rapes her?

3. Who is Patsy in the poem "Peaches of My Childhood"?

4. What happens in "The Fourth of July"?

5. Why did Karen Asherah not tell her mother about Daddy Kanagy's unwanted touches?

6. What is the main thing Lois Phillips Hudson laments in her essay "Why Aren't There More Creative Women""?

7. What analogy does Lillian Kelly use to describe how the pain of the molestation affected her life?

8. What did the priest's unwanted kiss cost Beverly Sky in "A Priest Kiss"?

9. What further indignity does Billie Holiday suffer after nearly being raped?

10. What was Ann Simonton's experience as a model?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the role that trust should play in the life of a child and how is this concept both perverted and obliterated for the victims of sexual abuse in this anthology?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the symbolism used in the pieces "Remembering Dream" and "My Half Sleep." What distance to the event do these symbols create for both the author and the reader?

Essay Topic 3

What role does the media play in perpetuating the image of women as objects of sexual pleasure? Do you agree with Ellen Bass's indictments of the media and society made in the Introduction?

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