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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. Doyle states in "Boys" that girls born into a patriarchal society become either shrewd or what?
(a) Strong.
(b) Armored.
(c) Sick.
(d) Wise.

2. Who is the boy in Amma's class that is discussed in "Bases"?
(a) Mike.
(b) Jason.
(c) Tommy.
(d) Peter.

3. Doyle states in "Poems" that right after itchy boredom is what?
(a) Depression.
(b) Self-discovery.
(c) Creativity.
(d) Anxiety.

4. From whom is the letter in "Boulders"?
(a) M.
(b) L.
(c) K.
(d) H.

5. In what grade is Amma in Doyle's narrative about her in "Bases"?
(a) Third.
(b) Fourth.
(c) Second.
(d) Fifth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Abby describe protecting her island with Doyle in her metaphor in "Islands"?

2. Whose presidency does Doyle saddle with having created the Religious Right movement?

3. In what year of high school was Chase when Doyle took a walk with him to talk about his phone in "Poems"?

4. Who did Chase say he read gave up his phone in "Poems"?

5. What did Doyle joke the reason was that everyone is so gay all of a sudden at the conference in "Questions"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Doyle liken the experience of unlearning racism to in "Racism"?

2. What do boulders represent in "Boulders"?

3. What did the elderly woman ask Doyle at a speaking engagement in "Questions"? How did Doyle respond?

4. Why did Abby turn against God, according to the narrative in "Knots"?

5. How did the Evangelical Christian church change during and after the Civil Rights Movement?

6. What happened when Doyle and her husband bought Chase a cell phone?

7. Why did Doyle react negatively when a character came out to her parents on a TV show in "Concessions"?

8. How has Doyle raised her son, according to the narrative in "Boys"?

9. How is imagination important to empathy?

10. What inspired Doyle to begin self-educating herself about race and racism?

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