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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. When Anderson returns home from Denmark, she finds that both of her parents have started drinking by what time of day?
(a) 1 p.m.
(b) 10 a.m.
(c) 3 p.m.
(d) 8 a.m.

2. How many hours per week did Anderson work while attending Georgetown full-time?
(a) 10.
(b) 15.
(c) 20.
(d) 25.

3. On what kind of farm did Anderson work as an adolescent?
(a) Pig.
(b) Lavender.
(c) Goat.
(d) Dairy.

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

5. With whom did Anderson watch the broadcast of Lady Diana's funeral?
(a) Her mother and grandmother.
(b) Her sister.
(c) No one.
(d) Her mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What scientific term does Anderson use to differentiate between herself and the character of Melinda?

2. How many dollars would an hour-long call to Florida have cost from her dorm at Georgetown, according to Anderson?

3. Anderson frowns on parents who tell their children what maxim?

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"?

5. For what kind of book award was Anderson nominated for her creation of the novel Speak?

Short Essay Questions

1. What quality of icebergs does Anderson liken to her move to Washington, D.C. in the poem entitled “calving iceberg” (138) and why?

2. What instruction does Anderson give to the reader at the end of the poem entitled “forgiveness” (206) and what is her purpose for doing so?

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

8. For what transgression does Anderson receive a look of scornful disgust during her tea with a new friend at Georgetown?

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

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

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