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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. The children's book author Russell Hoban wrote children's books about a family of what type of animals?

2. What experience in a concentration camp healed Anderson's father "just enough that he wept" (8)?

3. How many times did Anderson's father hit Anderson's mother after the beating that robbed her of her teeth?

4. What method of transportation did Anderson use to reach school during her time overseas?

5. Anderson's family called her what kind of animal in order to make fun of her weight?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What types of allusions does Anderson use to depict her father's secrecy about his traumatic war experiences?

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

4. How does irony appear within the poem entitled “candy-striped” (81)?

5. What traumatic experience did Anderson's father undergo at age 18?

6. To what element of life is the metaphor of "chum" connected in the poem of the same name?

7. What experience did Anderson's father undergo while working in the concentration camps that helped him heal just a little bit?

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

9. How does Anderson use sarcasm in order to make a point at the end of the poem entitled “ignorance” (83)?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In what way does Anderson herald and/or denigrate the use of coping mechanisms in dealing with trauma and how does Anderson’s treatment of this topic relate to the poetry memoir's depicted messages?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss how and why Anderson instills three different humanist messages into the narrative of SHOUT.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Anderson’s use of Aristotle's appeals within the text of SHOUT. How does Anderson use ethos, pathos, and logos within her verse memoir in order to persuade the reader of key messages central to the work's goals?

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