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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. Which people are said to "look the other way" (24) in the poem entitled "Chum"?
(a) Friends.
(b) Teachers.
(c) Lifeguards.
(d) Parents.

2. At the behest of a particular teacher, Anderson joins what sports team in the spring of her 10th grade year?
(a) Golf.
(b) Track.
(c) Soccer.
(d) Softball.

3. What experience in a concentration camp healed Anderson's father "just enough that he wept" (8)?
(a) He delivered a lost child to its mother.
(b) He cooked a meal for the survivors.
(c) He helped a mother give birth.
(d) He saved a little boy from drowning.

4. The celebration centered on Anderson's older brother within her host family lasts until what time of day?
(a) Afternoon.
(b) Dusk.
(c) Dawn.
(d) Midnight.

5. Anderson states that when she was not using her drug of choice, the only other action that would help her breathe was what?
(a) Painting.
(b) Writing.
(c) Reading.
(d) Camping.

Short Answer Questions

1. The final time Anderson's mother hit Anderson in the face occurred after what event?

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

3. Anderson describes what "untreated" emotion as " a cancer of the soul" (68)?

4. What kind of textbooks were censored in Anderson's high school?

5. Mr. P taught what subject while also being the only teacher who "always smiled at screwed-up kids like" (72) Anderson?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is ironic about the experience that teaches Anderson that some words are too powerful to be expressed aloud?

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

4. How does Anderson use sarcasm in order to make a point at the end of the poem entitled “ignorance” (83)?

5. How does Anderson characterize her father's silence in relation to his wartime experiences?

6. In what way was a gym teacher at Anderson’s school instrumental in her process of healing?

7. What types of allusions does Anderson use to depict her father's secrecy about his traumatic war experiences?

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

9. To what element of life is the metaphor of "chum" connected in the poem of the same name?

10. What do the lifeguards symbolize within the poem entitled "chum"?

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