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

2. Anderson's family called her what kind of animal in order to make fun of her weight?
(a) A cow.
(b) A hippo.
(c) A pig.
(d) A horse.

3. Anderson had taken how many years of French before embarking on her trip to study abroad?
(a) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

4. What did Anderson's father do for a living at the time he horrifically assaulted his wife, Anderson's mother?
(a) He worked as a garbage collector.
(b) He was in an apprenticeship with an auto mechanic.
(c) He studied to be an electrician.
(d) He studied to be a preacher.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of teacher tells Anderson that she should try out for sports teams in her 10th grade year?

2. How old was Anderson when saying a particular word in front of the "church ladies" (14) earned her a consequence?

3. What word did Anderson say as a child to earn a consequence from her mother?

4. Anderson's parents are described as having taken what action whenever something "horrible" (66) happened?

5. Anderson takes up what sport in the winter of her 10th grade year?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In what form is Anderson's memoir written and which of the text’s goals does this choice help Anderson to fulfill?

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

5. In the months immediately following IT's rape of Anderson, what main coping mechanism does Anderson use to cope with the trauma?

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

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

8. Provide an example of Anderson’s use of personification within a particular poem.

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

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

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