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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many points on a map does the author say her growing-up world contains in Movement II: Part IV?
(a) 5.
(b) 6.
(c) 3.
(d) 10.

2. What was the population of New Orleans in 1960?
(a) 627,525.
(b) 735,645.
(c) 1,463,453.
(d) 536,573.

3. What is listed on Simon Broom's death certificate as the cause of death?
(a) Heart attack.
(b) Kidney failure.
(c) Intracranial hemorrhage.
(d) Stroke.

4. When did the author's mother buy the yellow house where the author grew up?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1961.

5. How many million pounds of thrust were produced by the 131-metric-ton stage one boosters built for the rocket boosters for the first stage of the Saturn Launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida?
(a) 8.5 million.
(b) 2.5 million.
(c) 1.5 million.
(d) 7.5 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author notes that MR-GO would become an expensive failure. It would eventually cost taxpayers how much money per boat that passed through?

2. What was the economic damage that was assessed for Hurricane Betsy?

3. What day did Mayor Victor Schiro designate as Beatles Day?

4. In 1959, when the New Orleans East Inc. company began planning for development of the area, they projected how many residents in the area by 1970, according to the author in "Movement I: Part V"?

5. How many siblings does the author have?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the author's sense of identity change when she entered school? Why?

2. Where is the author's childhood home located?

3. What profession did Lolo eventually take on? Where did she work?

4. What is "colorism" and how does it apply in The Yellow House?

5. When did Ivory Mae marry Simon Broom? How is he described?

6. When and why did Lolo end up in New Orleans?

7. Who was Lionel Soule? How is he described?

8. Why was the author given the name Sarah?

9. What was MR-GO, and what were its impacts?

10. How is Ivory Mae's childhood home(s) described?

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