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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. The haiku Anderson includes in the book is dedicated to whom?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her cat.
(c) Her favorite teacher.
(d) Her mother.

2. In what country did Anderson spend time in a study abroad program?
(a) Denmark.
(b) Sweden.
(c) France.
(d) Belgium.

3. At what age was Anderson raped by her first boyfriend?
(a) 15.
(b) 14.
(c) 16.
(d) 13.

4. Anderson describes attending what kind of event for the older brother in her host family?
(a) Baptism.
(b) Wedding.
(c) Confirmation.
(d) Funeral.

5. Russell Hoban declared that which of his favorite writers was a "man without eyelids" (70)?
(a) Hemingway.
(b) Joyce.
(c) Salinger.
(d) Capote.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Anderson's father do for a living at the time he horrifically assaulted his wife, Anderson's mother?

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

3. At the behest of a particular teacher, Anderson joins what sports team in the fall of her 10th grade year?

4. What was Anderson's most difficult class in her time abroad?

5. At what young age did Anderson learn how to drive a car?

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

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

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

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

6. What event teaches Anderson that some words are too powerful ever to be spoken aloud?

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

8. Give an example of an allusion and a sensory detail that Anderson uses to indicate innocence.

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

10. What painful realization does Anderson have during high school in relation to her parents?

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