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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 is Ford's hometown?

2. What does Ford's mother tell her in Part I?

3. What does Ford find in her grandmother's bedroom right before Christmas one year?

4. What does Ford wait for in Chapter 8 from her mother that never comes?

5. What is Ford convinced her mother will do if she thinks someone else has abused her?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Ford's mother do when she hears from Ford's teacher Mrs. York that Ford has said inappropriate things in school?

3. What offer does Ford's mother make to her in Chapter 1 that Ford finds herself recoiling from, and why?

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

5. What happens after Mrs. York calls Ford's mother to tell her she was mistaken that Ford was saying inappropriate things at school?

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

7. How does Ford feel about going back to live with her mother after being on her great-grandfather's farm?

8. What does Ford's mother become obsessed with regarding her children in Chapter 9?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is Ford's mother's particular obsession with the safety of her children, and how does this obsession change or shape Ford's adolescence? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

How does Ford begin to reconcile what she has experienced in her own life as a sexual assault survivor, and what she comes to understand about her own father's crimes? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

How does Ford's mother's experience of stillbirth seem to change her? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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