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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. When Anderson began swimming all over town, what were all the pools made of?

2. Anderson's parents are described as having taken what action whenever something "horrible" (66) happened?

3. The introduction of SHOUT states that "this is a story of a girl who lost her voice" (1) and then took what action?

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

5. Which member of Anderson's family wrote poetry?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way does Anderson employ foreshadowing within her poetry memoir?

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

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

4. What difference does Anderson observe between her experiences in ninth grade and her experiences in tenth grade?

5. How does the theme of transformation enter the part of the poetry memoir describing Anderson’s high school years?

6. In what form is Anderson's memoir written and which of the text’s goals does this choice help Anderson to fulfill?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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 3

In what way does Anderson utilize irony within the text? Discuss at least three uses of irony within SHOUT and explore each instance's connection to larger themes contained within the piece.

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