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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 poem "shame turned inside out" makes the claim that "shame turned inside out is" (226) what emotion?
(a) Denial.
(b) Fear.
(c) Silence.
(d) Rage.

2. Anderson states that "when you get a letter from jail," (239) what object reads "Not Responsible for Contents" (239)?
(a) The inside of the envelope.
(b) The stamp.
(c) The front of the envelope.
(d) The flap of the envelope.

3. According to Anderson, what new undertaking in her writing required her to risk her pride?
(a) Editing.
(b) Shifting genres.
(c) Revision.
(d) Workshops.

4. One of Anderson's guesses regarding a particular person's choice to pull the fire alarm had to do with the culprit being what "as hell"?
(a) Guilty.
(b) Ignorant.
(c) Blind.
(d) Deaf.

5. Anderson reports that her father again found work in what arena after a period of years?
(a) Clergy.
(b) Education.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Retail.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what age was the character featured in the poem entitled "First Marking Period" raped?

2. On what kind of farm did Anderson live as a child?

3. How did Anderson come to meet the author of the young adult novel MONSTER?

4. What kind of class did Anderson's professor teach, as described within the poem entitled "drawn and quartered"?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. To whom does Anderson address the poem entitled “forgiveness” (206)?

2. In what way does Anderson portray the tendency for victims of sexual violence to be failed within the legal system?

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

4. In what way does Anderson characterize the way in which her life and her stories intersect?

5. In what way does the sound motif appear within SHOUT?

6. Who is Danuta Danielsson and what is the significance of her introduction?

7. What metaphor does Anderson use to depict her return to the United States after her time in Denmark?

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

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

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

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