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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 is the title of the poem that Vonetta plans to recite at the rally in "Itsy Bitsy Spider"?

2. Whom do Delphine and her sisters encounter on their way to San Francisco in "San Francisco Treat"?

3. What do Delphine and her sisters eat upon arriving at the People's Center in "Counting and Skimming"?

4. Where do Delphine and her sister go to catch a streetcar in "Wish We Had a Camera"?

5. When was Fisherman's Wharf redeveloped into a tourist attraction?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the civil rights events on the East Coast and the West Coast differ in the narrative?

2. What plan does Delphine reveal to her sisters in "San Francisco Treat"?

3. What happens when Delphine and her sisters return home in "Wish We Had a Camera"? What are the implications of this scenario?

4. What rule are the sisters breaking by cleaning Cecile's kitchen in "I Birthed a Nation"?

5. How has Delphine's behavior changed in "Wish We Had a Camera"? What has led to the change?

6. How is the theme of counterculture explored in "Wish We Had a Camera"?

7. Who arrives to help Delphine and her sisters in "I Birthed a Nation"? What impact does this have on the protagonist?

8. What does Sister Mukumbu teach the class in "Civic Pride"?

9. What does Delphine ask her mother for in "Expert Colored Counting"? How does Cecile respond?

10. What does Kelvin reveal about Brother Woods in "Civic Pride"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How have Delphine's, Vonetta's, and Fern's relationships with their mother changed from the beginning of the novel to the end? Whose perceptions of her mother have changed the most? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss the plot structure of One Crazy Summer. Where in the narrative do the exposition, rising action, and climax occur? What is revealed in the falling action and denouement of the story? Do you feel the plot is structured traditionally? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss the setting of the People's Center. Why are Delphine and her sisters sent to the center? What do they do when they arrive there? What are the people like at the People's Center?

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