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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. What does the phrase "eating crow" mean?

2. What does the girl tell Delphine and her sisters that peace is in "Wish We Had a Camera"?

3. What is the shopping center and tourist attraction at Fisherman's Wharf called?

4. How is the family described that takes pictures of Delphine and her sisters in "Wish We Had a Camera"?

5. Where is Cecile's poem discovered in "I Birthed a Nation"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Delphine ask her mother for in "Expert Colored Counting"? How does Cecile respond?

2. What is foreshadowed by the encounter with Hirohito in "San Francisco Treat"?

3. How has Delphine's behavior changed in "Wish We Had a Camera"? What has led to the change?

4. How does Cecile respond to Delphine's shopping at Safeway in "Big Red S"?

5. How would you relate the Black Panthers, flower children, and feminists in the novel?

6. What leads Delphine to go to Safeway in "Big Red S"?

7. What is revealed about Hirohito's character in "China Who"?

8. What happens when Delphine and her sisters return home in "Wish We Had a Camera"? What are the implications of this scenario?

9. What does Sister Mukumbu teach the class in "Civic Pride"?

10. What do Delphine and her peers learn about Bobby Hutton in "Rally for Bobby"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the family history of Delphine and her sisters. By whom have they been raised? When did their mother abandon the family? What kind of relationship have the sisters had with their mother up until their arrival in Oakland?

Essay Topic 2

How have Delphine's, Vonetta's, and Fern's relationships with their mother changed from the beginning of the novel to the end? Whose perceptions of her mother have changed the most? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss the character of Crazy Kelvin. Where do the Gaither sisters encounter Kelvin? Why does Kelvin confront Fern? Who gets Kelvin to stop harassing Fern?

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