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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. In what state was the school where someone pulled the fire alarm at the moment Anderson began her afternoon assembly?
(a) Massachusetts.
(b) New York.
(c) New Jersey.
(d) Vermont.

2. What was the duration of Anderson's father's long absence during her adolescence?
(a) 2 months.
(b) 9 months.
(c) 3 months.
(d) 6 months.

3. The poem "Polyhymnia" (167) focuses on which of Anderson's firsts?
(a) Her first kiss.
(b) Her first communion.
(c) Her first day of middle school.
(d) Her first day of high school.

4. The man featured at the center of the poem "not responsible for contents" (238) was convicted by a jury after what length of a deliberation?
(a) 3 hours.
(b) 1 hour.
(c) 1 day.
(d) 3 days.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What objects did Anderson sell over the phone as one of her money-making stints at Georgetown?

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

3. The poem entitled "scratching my throat with a pen" (149) is about Anderson's night job in what field?

4. Anderson states that she speaks to thousands of teens and hundreds of which other group of people at book festivals?

5. Anderson describes survivors of intercourse-free sexual violence as telling her that they know they should feel in what way?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does Anderson instill suspense into a particular moment within her poetry memoir?

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

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

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

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

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

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