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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 time period was covered in "We Are in Wolf Town"?

2. How many siblings did the author have?

3. How old was Ward when her family moved to a single-wide trailer on a dead-end road in DeLisle?

4. Toward the end of the Prologue, what was the only sound that Ward could hear as she walked the streets of her hometown?

5. What color was Ward's father's first house in the Prologue?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why was Demond unusual?

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

6. How did Ward describe where her father lived in New Orleans?

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

8. Why in the 1900s did adults in DeLisle arrange visits with other communities in Alabama or Louisiana?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Class and race affected Ward when she attended a private school. What is the difference between class and race? How did each affect the lives that Ward, her family, and her friends lived?

Essay Topic 2

Violence stalked Ward, her family, and her friends. What type of violence was common? How did that violence affect Ward and her friends? How did it change their lives?

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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