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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. To whom does Anderson address the poem entitled "innocence" (192)?
(a) Those who censor her books.
(b) Men who are proud to call themselves feminists.
(c) Those who speak out against sexual violence.
(d) Those who provide inadequate sex education.

2. What scientific term does Anderson use to differentiate between herself and the character of Melinda?
(a) Photosynthesis.
(b) Evolution.
(c) DNA.
(d) Natural selection.

3. Anderson states that she speaks to thousands of teens and hundreds of which other group of people at book festivals?
(a) Teachers.
(b) Writers.
(c) Poets.
(d) Survivors of sexual violence.

4. Which of Anderson's books do Anderson and the librarian discuss within the poem "librarian on the cusp of courage" (188)?
(a) Believe.
(b) SHOUT.
(c) Prom.
(d) Speak.

5. What is the name of the priest featured at the center of the poem entitled "a boy, a priest unholy" (244)?
(a) Father Gabriel.
(b) Father Michael.
(c) Father James.
(d) Father Luke.

Short Answer Questions

1. What perk of the telemarketing position made Anderson adore her job, though it paid very litte?

2. To how many years in prison was the man at the center of the poem "not responsible for contents" (238) sentenced?

3. When Anderson returns home from Denmark, she finds that both of her parents have started drinking by what time of day?

4. In the poem entitled "blowing up" (177) Anderson states that victims of intercourse-free sexual violence are entitled to have attention paid to what?

5. On what kind of farm did Anderson work as an adolescent?

Short Essay Questions

1. How long after Anderson was raped did she begin her high school career?

2. How does the theme of isolation enter the part of the memoir dealing with Anderson’s time at Georgetown University?

3. Whom does Anderson credit with teaching her everything she knows about (170) her “responsibility to [her] readers”?

4. What is one suggestion that Anderson provides in relation to how young women should be instructed in a different manner than the ways in which they are currently taught?

5. What aspect of Anderson’s life ensured that she would work hard in community college?

6. How does Anderson go about creating an interdisciplinary work of literature within the poem entitled “forgiveness” (206)?

7. To what location is Anderson referring when she discusses her “last leaving” and her “predawn trip” in the poem “calving iceberg” (138)?

8. What mistakes does Anderson think that Western society is making when socializing young boys and why?

9. What two elements does Anderson contrast within the poem “triptych” (210) and for what purpose?

10. How does the theme of family bonds enter the part of the memoir about Anderson’s return home from Denmark?

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