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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. How many other students were black in the school Ward attended in the late 1980s and early 1990s?
(a) 11.
(b) Three.
(c) None.
(d) Seven.

2. What year did Ward and her family move from their small house?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1984.
(c) 1981.
(d) 1983

3. When did adults from DeLisle arrange visits to other communities in Alabama or Louisia to match children with marriageable mates?
(a) Late 1800s.
(b) Early 1900s.
(c) 1920s.
(d) 1880s.

4. Where did the author live in Mississippi in the Prologue?
(a) Bay Springs.
(b) DeLisle.
(c) Roxie.
(d) Cascilla.

5. Toward the end of the Prologue, what was the only sound that Ward could hear as she walked the streets of her hometown?
(a) Music from car radios.
(b) Sound of a ball game.
(c) Arguing.
(d) Parrot.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Ward get her undergraduate degree?

2. What was Ward's favorite television show in "We Are Wounded"?

3. What type of school did the author attend in the late 1980s and early 1990s?

4. When did the Ward's great-grandparents build their home in the author's hometown?

5. Who came to help Ward drive home from school the summer of 2004?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Ward's mother want to stay in California?

2. What were some of the jobs that Demond held?

3. Who was in Ward's immediate family when she was growing up?

4. What type of party did Ward have for her seventh birthday?

5. Why was there a woods in "We Are Wounded" that belonged to Du Pont?

6. How hard of a worker was Ward's maternal grandmother, Dorothy?

7. Who lived with Ward's grandmother in "We Are Wounded"?

8. What did Ward's classmates from Michigan do during the summer?

9. Where were Pass Christian and DeLisle located?

10. What were the circumstances of Ward's birth?

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