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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Anderson and her family were terrified for years that Anderson's father would take what action?
(a) Kill his wife.
(b) Go to jail.
(c) Vanish.
(d) Commit suicide.

2. Anderson takes up what sport in the winter of her 10th grade year?
(a) Indoor soccer.
(b) Skiing.
(c) Basketball.
(d) Rollerskating.

3. How many miscarriages did Anderson's mother have before giving birth to Anderson?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.

4. When Anderson embarked upon her trip overseas, she wore a medal bearing the image of which saint?
(a) Saint Anthony.
(b) Saint Frances.
(c) Saint Augustine.
(d) Saint Christopher.

5. The children's book author Russell Hoban wrote children's books about a family of what type of animals?
(a) Hippos.
(b) Badgers.
(c) Giraffes.
(d) Deer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What method of transportation did Anderson use to reach school during her time overseas?

2. Anderson had taken how many years of French before embarking on her trip to study abroad?

3. What action did Anderson's rapist take once he stepped away from her and zipped up his jeans?

4. What was Anderson's drug of choice throughout her early high school years?

5. For how many years did Anderson's family live in the house on Berkeley Street?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kinds of successes does Anderson cite when demonstrating to the reader the emotional progress she had made by her eleventh grade year?

2. According to Anderson, what element is necessary in order to heal from the trauma of sexual violence?

3. What metaphor does Anderson use to depict the enormous anger that seemed to take over her rapist's body and why?

4. How does irony appear within the poem entitled “candy-striped” (81)?

5. In what way did travel underscore for Anderson what she did not want to happen in her own life?

6. What difference does Anderson observe between her experiences in ninth grade and her experiences in tenth grade?

7. What evidence does Anderson provide for her claim that physical activity helped her to gain courage?

8. How does the theme of transformation enter the part of the poetry memoir describing Anderson’s high school years?

9. What traumatic experience did Anderson's father undergo at age 18?

10. What experience did Anderson's father undergo while working in the concentration camps that helped him heal just a little bit?

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