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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. Who was the man who owned the accounting firm where Nancy had a temp job?
(a) Isadore Weintraub.
(b) Isaiah Weinstein.
(c) Jerry Goldfarb.
(d) Marcus Wellman.

2. How old was Nancy at the beginning of her story?
(a) 9.
(b) 6.
(c) 13.
(d) 21.

3. Why has Wally been asked to come teach at the facility in #6?
(a) To help the women get their GEDs.
(b) To help the women write better letters in their appeals processes.
(c) To inspire the women to use writing as a tool for coping.
(d) To get the women acclimated to civilian life.

4. Tabatha's mother beat her ______________________.
(a) Because she didn't want her to be a bad girl.
(b) Because she thought she needed punishment.
(c) Because her own mother beat her.
(d) Because she loved her.

5. Carolyn Ann Adams' story is organized into two chapters --The Right to Remain Silent and ____________________.
(a) The Right to Appeal.
(b) The Right to an Attorney.
(c) The Right to Scream.
(d) The Right to Speak.

Short Answer Questions

1. What prompts the reappearance of Nancy's nightmare images?

2. Nancy had felt _______________ most of her life.

3. What position had Carolyn held?

4. How old was Wally when he got his first teaching job?

5. Where did Nancy's father take her at the beginning of her story?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Wally originally asked to come to the York Correctional Institution in 1999?

2. What was Wally's reasoning for not being able to refuse Marge Cohen's call to come to York Correctional Institution?

3. What did Carolyn focus on outside while waiting to be processed into the Department of Corrections?

4. How did Nancy's family disintegrate and how did Nancy manage being alone with her abusive mother?

5. Who was Aldo and what influence did he have on Nancy's life?

6. What did Nancy finally remember that made the flying monkeys such a horrible memory for her?

7. What trauma did Tabatha endure from the age of four and how did she get introduced to pot and alcohol?

8. Describe how Nancy and Isadore were complete opposites.

9. How did Nancy describe the summer she worked for Isadore?

10. What was the premise of Nancy Whitely's story, "The True Face of Earth"?

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