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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. What happens to Ford on New Year's Eve in Chapter 11?

2. How does Ford realize Santa Claus is not real?

3. Who does Ford think she sees during a dream as a child in Chapter 4?

4. What type of land does Ford live on in Chapter 7?

5. In Chapter 5, what does Ford think her mother sometimes needs her to do as a child?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ford overhear her mother saying about what she would do if someone hurt her kids?

2. Why does Ford suspect her mother stays with Allen?

3. Why does Ford go to live with her grandmother in Chapter 7?

4. In Chapter 7, what happens that traumatizes Ford's mother?

5. What vision does Ford see in Chapter 4 that terrifies her?

6. How does Ford remember the incident in Chapter 5 when her mother's boyfriend injures her accidentally?

7. What does Ford do late at night to help her sleep in Chapter 8?

8. How does Ford react to the news about her father in Chapter 1?

9. How does Grandma Billie react when Ford asks who her own father is in a photo?

10. How does Ford remember the process of having her hair relaxed in Chapter 5?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

At the end of the memoir, how does Ford describe the evolution of her relationship with her mother? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

Why is Ford so determined, as a young girl, to witness the sunrise for the first time, and what does the sunrise symbolize for her at the time in her life? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

How does Ford's unspoken feelings to her mother's assurances that she could always come home to live with her in Chapter 1 set the tone and expectation for the reader regarding her descriptions of her relationship with her mother for the rest of the memoir? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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