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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 is the high school guidance counselor's advice for Jeannette?
2. Who brings Rose Mary to Thanksgiving dinner?
3. What incident gets Maureen sentenced to one year in the hospital?
4. What happens to the money that Lori and Jeannette have been saving?
5. Why does Jeannette confront her mother and say she is acting like a child?
Short Essay Questions
1. How do the Walls parents fail to protect their children from Erma?
2. What are Jeannette's feelings towards her parents by the end of the book?
3. Why is Jeannette so interested in going to Ginnie Sue's house? What is her visit like?
4. What are some examples of how the Walls parents fail to provide for their children's needs during this first year in Welch?
5. What plans do Lori and Jeannette begin to make for themselves at the end of Part 3?
6. What potentially dangerous situation does Rex put Jeannette in while her mother is out of town for training?
7. Why does Jeannette enjoy swimming with Dinitia more than going to the pool during the other swim sessions when the rest of the white children in Welch swim?
8. Describe Jeannette's reaction when her mother comes to her, begging her and her new husband to buy some property in Texas that abutted her own.
9. What changes does Jeannette make in her life after her father dies?
10. What events help form Jeannette's desire to be a professional writer?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Jeannette's relationship with her mother is conflicted, yet she still feels a fondness and compassion for her as an adult. Discuss the relationship between these two women by answering the following questions:
1) How would you characterize the relationship between the two?
2) How does each of these women play both an adult and a child's role?
3) How does the relationship between them change over time?
Essay Topic 2
Rose Mary tells Jeannette, as an adult, that her values are "all confused." What does Rose Mary mean?
1) How does Rose Mary view Jeannette's life and career?
2) What are Rose Mary's values like and how do Jeannette's differ?
3) What values or ideas do you think that they agree on? What is important to both of them?
Essay Topic 3
The author's views of what is important and what will bring her happiness change throughout the book. Discuss how her ideas of a good life evolve from childhood into adulthood. Consider:
1) What things does Jeannette hope for as a child?
2) What is her life like as an adult, and is she happy?
3) Do Jeannette's values change throughout her life, or is she essentially the same person?
4) What does Jeannette ultimately decide that she has been looking for, and where does she find it?
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