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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. When did Langston Hughes die?

2. Who was Jacqueline Woodson's first grade teacher?

3. What food product does the poet describe Aunt Kay eating like candy in the poem "Caroline But We Called Her Aunt Kay, Some Memories"?

4. Where does the poet describe Grandma Georgiana sitting on the bus in "What Everybody Knows Now"?

5. Who lived above Jackie's family on Herzl Street?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author describe her school in "First Grade"?

2. How does the author describe her aunt in the poem "Caroline But We Called Her Aunt Kay, Some Memories"?

3. Where did Jacqueline Woodson's family move after the death of Aunt Kay? How is this setting described in "Moving Again"?

4. Who is described as sporting afros in the poem "Afros"? Why was Jackie not allowed to wear this hairstyle?

5. How does the author describe her family's reaction in "When I Tell My Family"? What does Jackie describe telling them?

6. What does the poet describe thinking about as she eats breakfast in "Saturday Morning"?

7. Why does Jacqueline Woodson say she wrote "Jackie" on the board in school in the poem "Late Autumn"?

8. What is described in the poem "Six Minutes"? What do the "six minutes" in the title refer to?

9. Where does the author describe Grandma Georgiana sitting on the bus in "What Everybody Knows Now"? Why did she sit here?

10. How has the setting of Jackie's grandparents' home changed in "Daddy This Time"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the themes of pride, prejudice, and the American Dream in Brown Girl Dreaming. How are these themes embodied by Georgiana, Gunnar, Mary Anne, and Jackie? What symbolism and imagery in the narrative relates to these themes?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss the Woodson ancestry. How was Jacqueline Woodson related to Thomas Jefferson? How many children did Thomas Jefferson father with Sally Hemings? How does the author relate this information in Brown Girl Dreaming? Why does she relate it?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss segregation in the South in 1963 and the setting of Greenville, South Carolina, at this time. How big was Greenville? How has the city changed in the past 50 years? When was Greenville desegregated?

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