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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 did Tina do after Ike beat her?

2. In what city was Tina Turner born?

3. What was Tina's relationship with her sister?

4. How did Tina meet Ike Turner?

5. What was the name of the record produced for Ike's group by Sam Phillips?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Ike and Tina's household like in Los Angeles?

2. Why did Tina's parents live away from their daughters for two years?

3. How did Ike meet Tina?

4. What type of music did Tina like during high school in the 1950s?

5. What were the circumstances under which Anna Mae transitioned into Tina Turner?

6. How did wigs become a signature part of Tina's act?

7. Who was Ann Cain and what role did she have in Ike and Tina's life?

8. Where did the Bullock family live after the jobs ended in Nashville?

9. What was Tina Turner's given name and where was she born?

10. What happened the first and only time Ike hired a white girl to be an Ikette?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What impact did Tina's estranged relationship with her mother have on Tina's life? What emotional wounds did Tina suffer? How did the rejection by her mother impact Tina's relationships with other people? Was it part of Tina's inability to stand up to Ike and stop the abuse? Did Tina feel like she deserved to be abused because she was unworthy? State your opinion.

Essay Topic 2

Explain the role of women in the rural South in the mid-twentieth century. What precedents did they feel compelled to follow? What restrictions did they have? What freedoms did they have that 21st century women do not have? What belief system about black women would Tina have carried with her throughout her life? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

Explain the concept of loneliness as it exhibits in the book. Why would black women have had lonely lives in America in the mid 20th century? Why would Tina have had an especially lonely life being the wife of Ike Turner? Explain the loneliness and the methods and attempts to overcome it.

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