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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 was the largest enrollment of all students at the private high school where Ward attended?

2. Which of Ronald's siblings had Ward attend elementary school with?

3. How many piled into a Suburban with Ward in "Charles Joseph Martin" to go to New Orleans?

4. What highway did Josh take home the night he died?

5. What type of car did Ward's father drive when he picked them up from the theater after their cousin passed out drunk?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did Joshua find a job in June and what did he do there in "Joshua Adam Dedeaux"?

2. Why did Ward pray in "We Are Learning" to move back to DeLisle?

3. What did Ward's father do when Joshua died?

4. What did Ward do after she finished her master's coursework at Stanford in April 2000?

5. What did Ward say about Ronald's living situations when she knew him in "Ronald Wayne Lizana"?

6. How did Ward find herself wandering around New York when she lived there?

7. How did C. J. die?

8. How was Ward able to attend a private school?

9. Why did Ward's mother not have many options for work?

10. in "Charles Joseph Martin," what did Ward say that she learned since she had left home?

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

Ward found it difficult to trust. What did Ward reveal about trust for herself, her family, and her community? Why was trust so difficult to find in her life and the lives of those around her?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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