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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. How many days past "the Water" does the narrator describe Carl sitting where their home used to be in "Map"?

2. Who was Webb's stepfather?

3. How tall did Ivory Mae grow to become?

4. How many points on a map does the author say her growing-up world contains in Movement II: Part IV?

5. What is the address of the house where the narrator describes growing up in "Map"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the prospects of the New Orleans East Inc. company for the area in 1959?

2. How were Michael and Darryl different when in school?

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

4. What was the condition of the Yellow House when Ivory Mae purchased it? How much did it cost?

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

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

7. When and how did Simon Broom die?

8. Who was Webb? What happened to him?

9. How did the author's outlook change when she was ten?

10. When did Hurricane Betsy strike? What damage did it incur?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the impacts of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans East and the author's family. When did Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans? What caused the levees to break? How much structural damage came about due to the hurricane? How has New Orleans East recovered?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the themes of inequality and displacement in The Yellow House. How does the author develop these themes through individual narratives within the memoir? What symbols relate to these themes? What statement(s) is that author making regarding inequality and displacement through her memoir?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss the location of the Yellow House. On what street was it located? How does the author describe the neighborhood around it during her childhood? How did the neighborhood change during the author's childhood?

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