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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Alice Walker graduate from college?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Stanford.
(c) Sarah Lawrence College.
(d) University of Chicago.

2. What was the name of Walker's paternal great-grandmother?
(a) Jennie.
(b) Cynthia.
(c) Nicole.
(d) Sharron.

3. How does Walker describe her father's skin in Part 3 in comparison with her own?
(a) Wrinkled.
(b) Dark.
(c) Mottled.
(d) Pale.

4. Louisa bought Walker her first what in Part 2?
(a) Cat.
(b) Bikini.
(c) Dog.
(d) Purse.

5. In Part 1, Walker pictures herself as a baby as the character in a movie or a poem by whom?
(a) Allen Ginsburg.
(b) Langston Hughes.
(c) Jim Morrison.
(d) Henry David Thoreau.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many memoirs has Rebecca Walker written?

2. What group describes itself as "a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, stop new wars, and redirect our resources into healthcare, education, green jobs and other life-affirming activities"?

3. What did Walker's parents work together on while living in Mississippi?

4. What belief did Walker's parents reject, as described in Part 2?

5. Walker's favorite uncle growing up was whose brother?

(see the answer key)

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