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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 263-291 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of the poem that focuses on Anderson's five late brothers?
(a) "Goodbye boys."
(b) "Gone boys."
(c) "Soldier boys."
(d) "Lost boys."

2. How many sons in total did Anderson's mother lose in miscarriages?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

3. Anderson claims that the key to telling stories is to "learn to remember/without being" (282) what?
(a) Smothered.
(b) Burned.
(c) Destroyed.
(d) Hurt.

4. At what time of year does Anderson arrive at the home of her host family overseas?
(a) Early winter.
(b) Late summer.
(c) Early fall.
(d) Late spring.

5. When Anderson was young, she and her friends liked to pretend they were taking what action as they rode their bikes?
(a) Chopping down telephone poles.
(b) Driving race cars.
(c) Riding horses.
(d) Riding in the Tour de France.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what age did Anderson's mother take her to a pond for swimming lessons?

2. What objects did Anderson sell over the phone as one of her money-making stints at Georgetown?

3. How old was Anderson's father when he saw his friend killed in front of him?

4. After how many years did Anderson's father regain a position within a certain line of work he had previously done?

5. How much time went by before Anderson began to worry about pregnancy as a result of her rape?

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