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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. In what location did Anderson's parents live while they waited for Anderson's mother's mouth to heal and for her false teeth to arrive?

2. What kind of teacher tells Anderson that she should try out for sports teams in her 10th grade year?

3. How many miscarriages did Anderson's mother have before giving birth to Anderson?

4. At the behest of a particular teacher, Anderson joins what sports team in the spring of her 10th grade year?

5. Anderson was unable to attend whose funeral because she was studying abroad?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Anderson, what element is necessary in order to heal from the trauma of sexual violence?

2. Provide an example of Anderson’s use of personification within a particular poem.

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

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

5. What event teaches Anderson that some words are too powerful ever to be spoken aloud?

6. What painful realization does Anderson have during high school in relation to her parents?

7. How does Anderson characterize her father's silence in relation to his wartime experiences?

8. What do the lifeguards symbolize within the poem entitled "chum"?

9. What kinds of successes does Anderson cite when demonstrating to the reader the emotional progress she had made by her eleventh grade year?

10. What metaphor does Anderson use to depict the enormous anger that seemed to take over her rapist's body and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Determine Anderson’s message within the poetry memoir SHOUT regarding the idea that gender norms and societal expectations are still ruling young women’s lives, even in the twenty-first century.

Essay Topic 2

What message does Anderson send within the pages of SHOUT concerning the link between communication and healing?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Anderson's choice to tell the story of SHOUT using the form of a poetry memoir. What elements of the story’s themes lend themselves to this choice and what are Anderson’s intended effects on the reader?

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