View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Audre begin doing to her first playmate that she seems to enjoy?
(a) Puts makeup on her.
(b) Undresses her.
(c) Brushes her hair.
(d) Hit her.

2. What does Audre say that she and Gennie never shared together in Chapter 14?
(a) Making love.
(b) Cuddling.
(c) A kiss.
(d) Conversation.

3. What does Audre believe her sisters have more of than her when she is young?
(a) Education.
(b) Love.
(c) Attention.
(d) Privileges.

4. What is Audre particularly enamored by as a child?
(a) Making up stories.
(b) Having friends.
(c) Having pets.
(d) Being alone.

5. In what year did the protagonist's parents immigrate to the United States?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1930.
(d) 1924.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Audre say her mother hates to cook but that she enjoyed?

2. What is the name of Audre's group of friends who are outcasts in high school?

3. What does Audre say her sisters are to her while they are growing up?

4. Whom does Audre share a bed with growing up?

5. What nationality is the woman whom Audre finds to help her with her pregnancy?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Audre describe her time spent working with her father in Chapter 9?

2. How are the Carriacou women first described in the book?

3. How does Audre initially react to the tragedy of Pearl Harbor?

4. How does Audre describe being raped on a rooftop when she was 10-years-old?

5. How is the beginning of Audre's desire for female companionship described in the book?

6. How is the meaning of Zami first described in the book?

7. How is Audre's consciousness of what race means first described in the book?

8. How is Gennie's relationship with her mother Louisa described in the book?

9. How is Gennie's death described in the book?

10. How is Audre's poetry writing described when she first joins The Branded?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 595 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample