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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 118-162.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the hammer symbolize in the poem entitled "separation--AWOL 1" (121)?
(a) Resignation.
(b) Elation.
(c) Depression.
(d) Hope.

2. The introduction of SHOUT states that "this is a story of a girl who lost her voice" (1) and then took what action?
(a) Gave herself a new one.
(b) Decided to see what shouting was like.
(c) Wrote herself a new one.
(d) Found herself a new one.

3. To which group of people is Anderson referring when she describes trolls hiding under bridges and dogs hunting a particular icon?
(a) Lawyers.
(b) Paparazzi.
(c) Doctors.
(d) Reporters.

4. In what kind of store at the mall did Anderson work during her teenage years?
(a) Baked goods.
(b) Fragrance.
(c) Clothing.
(d) Jewelry.

5. Which member of Anderson's family says that children should be told to follow their nightmares?
(a) Auntie Laurie.
(b) Anderson's sister.
(c) Anderson's father.
(d) Anderson's mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. The poem entitled "drawn and quartered" is about one of Anderson's professors who had been raising how many children on his own?

2. What experience in a concentration camp healed Anderson's father "just enough that he wept" (8)?

3. Anderson describes her mother's decision to give her "the most boring job in the world" (132) was actually her mother's way of what?

4. What is the subtitle of the Prelude?

5. About which family member(s) of Anderson's is the poem entitled "strawberry-blonde fairy tales" (129)?

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