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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 was the trailer Ward and her family moved to from their small house in the big field?

2. How many other students were black in the school Ward attended in the late 1980s and early 1990s?

3. How old was Demond when he became a father?

4. What hurricane hit Mississippi when Ward's father was 13?

5. When did Ward's family move back to Mississippi?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Ward's classmates from Michigan do during the summer?

2. How did Ward describe photographs of her ancestors in "We Are in Wolf Town"?

3. Where were Pass Christian and DeLisle located?

4. What were the circumstances of Ward's birth?

5. How hard of a worker was Ward's maternal grandmother, Dorothy?

6. How did Ward's great-great grandfather die?

7. Who lived with Ward's grandmother in "We Are Wounded"?

8. Why did Ward's mother want to stay in California?

9. Why did De'Sean live with his grandmother?

10. How did Ward describe her school and her life?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Both Ward's maternal and paternal grandparents were divorced. How did the divorces affect Ward's parents and the roles they assumed in their families? How did the divorces affect the type of people that Ward's parents became and later Ward and her siblings became?

Essay Topic 2

There seemed to be a cycle that Ward, her family, and friends lived. What was the cycle that affected their lives? In what way were they relieving events that had happened to their ancestors? How did that repetition of history affect them and the lives they lived?

Essay Topic 3

C. J. didn't believe in a future for himself. How did C. J. live that revealed his belief that life was transient? How did that belief affect the way he lived his life?

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