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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's father saw his friend die in front of him, they were both repairing airplanes in what location?
2. What is the subtitle of the Prelude?
3. At the behest of a particular teacher, Anderson joins what sports team in the fall of her 10th grade year?
4. Anderson describes what "untreated" emotion as " a cancer of the soul" (68)?
5. In the prelude, Anderson states that "this book reeks of" (3) her what?
Short Essay Questions
1. What traumatic experience did Anderson's father undergo at age 18?
2. In what way does Anderson employ foreshadowing within her poetry memoir?
3. What painful realization does Anderson have during high school in relation to her parents?
4. What is ironic about the experience that teaches Anderson that some words are too powerful to be expressed aloud?
5. What experience did Anderson's father undergo while working in the concentration camps that helped him heal just a little bit?
6. What event teaches Anderson that some words are too powerful ever to be spoken aloud?
7. What types of allusions does Anderson use to depict her father's secrecy about his traumatic war experiences?
8. In what form is Anderson's memoir written and which of the text’s goals does this choice help Anderson to fulfill?
9. In what way did travel underscore for Anderson what she did not want to happen in her own life?
10. According to Anderson, what element is necessary in order to heal from the trauma of sexual violence?
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 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?
Essay Topic 3
What message does Anderson send within the pages of SHOUT concerning the link between communication and healing?
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