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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. In "Roger Eric Daniels III," were did Rog live?

2. How many siblings did the author have?

3. How old was Ward in "Roger Eric Daniels III"?

4. Where was Ward going to school in "Roger Eric Daniels III"?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Ward's mother look like when she and Ward's father were first married?

2. What did Demond look like when Ward met him?

3. When Ward was growing up in DeLisle in the 1980s, how was stealing handled?

4. How did Demond die?

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

6. How did Ward's father get the money to buy a motorcycle?

7. Where were Pass Christian and DeLisle located?

8. What were some of the jobs that Demond held?

9. How did Ward and her brother Joshua spend their days at the beginning of "We Are Wounded"?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Substance abuse is common in Ward's hometown. How does substance abuse affect the black community Ward has grown up in? How does substance abuse affect her life and the life of her family and friends?

Essay Topic 2

Life in Ward's community seemed to be futile. Why did life seem futile? How did that affect the way that Ward and others in her community lived and died?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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