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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Audre's first playmate?
(a) Ada.
(b) Bea.
(c) Toni.
(d) Jill.

2. What office does Audre run for in her middle school?
(a) Class secretary.
(b) Class treasurer.
(c) Class vice president.
(d) Class president.

3. What type of book is "Zami, a New Spelling of My Name"?
(a) A book of short stories.
(b) A children's book.
(c) An autobiography.
(d) A fiction novel.

4. Why does Audre say she loves making the dish her mother hates?
(a) She likes pounding garlic.
(b) She likes pounding meat.
(c) It takes patience.
(d) The smell is nice.

5. What does Audre express a desire for in Chapter 4?
(a) A boyfriend.
(b) A little sister.
(c) A girlfriend.
(d) A new mother.

6. What kind of unique consciousness does Audre attribute for her ability to be a focused writer?
(a) Racial and sexual.
(b) Racial.
(c) Intellectual.
(d) Sexual.

7. What is Audre afraid is wrong with her after she finds help with her pregnancy?
(a) That she is hemorrhaging.
(b) That she will die.
(c) That she will lose the baby.
(d) That she will lose her boyfriend.

8. What hobby does Audre begin doing after joining her group of outcast friends in high school?
(a) Poetry writing.
(b) Cooking.
(c) Painting.
(d) Pottery making.

9. What is the name of the group of good kids in the author's elementary school class?
(a) Brownies.
(b) Blackbirds.
(c) Laurels.
(d) Fairies.

10. Whom does Audre share a bed with growing up?
(a) Her cousin.
(b) Her parents.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her sisters.

11. What political stance does Audre begin conforming to in Chapter 13?
(a) Socialism.
(b) Fascism.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Communism.

12. How does Audre feel when she loses the position that she ran for in middle school?
(a) Indifferent.
(b) Content.
(c) Happy.
(d) Devastated.

13. What does Audre's family find at the end of Chapter 7?
(a) A pet.
(b) A new baby.
(c) A new car.
(d) A new home.

14. What tragedy occurs at the beginning of Chapter 7?
(a) World War I.
(b) Pearl Harbor.
(c) D Day.
(d) The Vietnam War.

15. What does Audre have her first experience with during her first class trip?
(a) Death.
(b) Segregation.
(c) Drugs.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What job does an aptitude test suggest Audre have when she takes it in high school?

2. In what year did the protagonist's parents immigrate to the United States?

3. What is the name of the island filled with women that the author focuses on in Chapter 1?

4. What is the name of Audre's first boyfriend?

5. What is Audre particularly enamored by as a child?

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