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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. Mr. P. asks Anderson to join which club at her high school?
(a) Debate Club.
(b) International Club.
(c) Math Club.
(d) Key Club.

2. Anderson and her family were terrified for years that Anderson's father would take what action?
(a) Go to jail.
(b) Vanish.
(c) Kill his wife.
(d) Commit suicide.

3. The children's book author Russell Hoban wrote children's books about a family of what type of animals?
(a) Hippos.
(b) Deer.
(c) Giraffes.
(d) Badgers.

4. Anderson had taken how many years of French before embarking on her trip to study abroad?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 1.
(d) 4.

5. In addition to Anderson herself, who else fixed the problem keeping Anderson from studying abroad?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her grandmother.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which people are said to "look the other way" (24) in the poem entitled "Chum"?

2. The introduction of SHOUT states that "this is a story of a girl who lost her voice" (1) and then took what action?

3. Anderson describes what "untreated" emotion as " a cancer of the soul" (68)?

4. What kind of burns are said to have the potential to be lethal?

5. Russell Hoban declared that which of his favorite writers was a "man without eyelids" (70)?

Short Essay Questions

1. What painful realization does Anderson have during high school in relation to her parents?

2. What experience did Anderson's father undergo while working in the concentration camps that helped him heal just a little bit?

3. In the months immediately following IT's rape of Anderson, what main coping mechanism does Anderson use to cope with the trauma?

4. How does Anderson use sarcasm in order to make a point at the end of the poem entitled “ignorance” (83)?

5. Give an example of an allusion and a sensory detail that Anderson uses to indicate innocence.

6. In what way was a gym teacher at Anderson’s school instrumental in her process of healing?

7. What event teaches Anderson that some words are too powerful ever to be spoken aloud?

8. In what form is Anderson's memoir written and which of the text’s goals does this choice help Anderson to fulfill?

9. In what way did travel underscore for Anderson what she did not want to happen in her own life?

10. What evidence does Anderson provide for her claim that physical activity helped her to gain courage?

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