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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 kind of textbooks were censored in Anderson's high school?

2. Anderson states that when she was not using her drug of choice, the only other action that would help her breathe was what?

3. Who taught Anderson to drive a car at a young age?

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

5. What was Anderson's drug of choice throughout her early high school years?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What metaphor does Anderson use to depict the enormous anger that seemed to take over her rapist's body and why?

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

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

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

7. In what way does Anderson employ foreshadowing within her poetry memoir?

8. What do the lifeguards symbolize within the poem entitled "chum"?

9. What kinds of successes does Anderson cite when demonstrating to the reader the emotional progress she had made by her eleventh grade year?

10. What is ironic about the experience that teaches Anderson that some words are too powerful to be expressed aloud?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Look carefully at the passages of SHOUT that describe the relationships among Anderson and her family members. What is Anderson’s purpose for discussing at length the nature of family dynamics within her memoir about sexual assault?

Essay Topic 2

What is the Acevedo’s message concerning the unique struggle undergone by young people who experience sexual violence?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze the ways in which the water motif appears within Anderson’s poetry memoir SHOUT. What messages are being communicated to the reader through the use of this motif?

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