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    Worksheet Memories of Childhood

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    This document contains 12 short answer questions and 2 long answer questions about the memoirs "Memories of Childhood" by Zitkala-Sa and Bama. The questions probe different childhood memories and experiences of discrimination faced by Zitkala-Sa and Bama, including Zitkala-Sa crying on her first day in a white boarding school after her hair was cut, Bama witnessing social discrimination on her walk home from school, and both authors struggling with oppression and discrimination in their early lives due to their cultures and communities. The document serves as a worksheet to test comprehension of key details and themes from the memoirs.

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    This document contains 12 short answer questions and 2 long answer questions about the memoirs "Memories of Childhood" by Zitkala-Sa and Bama. The questions probe different childhood memories and experiences of discrimination faced by Zitkala-Sa and Bama, including Zitkala-Sa crying on her first day in a white boarding school after her hair was cut, Bama witnessing social discrimination on her walk home from school, and both authors struggling with oppression and discrimination in their early lives due to their cultures and communities. The document serves as a worksheet to test comprehension of key details and themes from the memoirs.

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    This document contains 12 short answer questions and 2 long answer questions about the memoirs "Memories of Childhood" by Zitkala-Sa and Bama. The questions probe different childhood memories and experiences of discrimination faced by Zitkala-Sa and Bama, including Zitkala-Sa crying on her first day in a white boarding school after her hair was cut, Bama witnessing social discrimination on her walk home from school, and both authors struggling with oppression and discrimination in their early lives due to their cultures and communities. The document serves as a worksheet to test comprehension of key details and themes from the memoirs.

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    Worksheet Memories of Childhood

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    Riddhima Dhingra
    This document contains 12 short answer questions and 2 long answer questions about the memoirs "Memories of Childhood" by Zitkala-Sa and Bama. The questions probe different childhood memories and experiences of discrimination faced by Zitkala-Sa and Bama, including Zitkala-Sa crying on her first day in a white boarding school after her hair was cut, Bama witnessing social discrimination on her walk home from school, and both authors struggling with oppression and discrimination in their early lives due to their cultures and communities. The document serves as a worksheet to test comprehension of key details and themes from the memoirs.

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    FRANCIS SCHOOL, INDIRAPURAM


    Worksheet- Class- XII
    Memories of Childhood
    - Zitkala-Sa and Bama
    Short Answer Type Questions
    1. Why was Zitkala-Sa in tears on the first day in the land of apples?

    2. What comic incident did Bama narrate to her brother? Why was he not amused?

    3. What was the advice that Annan gave to Bama? Did she follow it?

    4. What did Zitkala-Sa feel when her long hair was cut?

    5. “I felt like sinking to the floor,” says Zitkala-Sa. When did she feel so and why?

    6. What did Judewin tell Zitkala-Sa? How did she react to it?

    7. What does Zitkala-Sa remember about the first day in the land of apples?

    8. Why was Zitkala-Sa so averse to having her hair cut?

    9. Why did the landlord’s man ask Bama’s brother on which street he lived? What was the significance?
    10. Why did Bama take thirty minutes walking home from school when she could have covered the distance
    in ten minutes?

    11. When did Bama first come to know of the social discrimination faced by the people of her community?

    12. How did Zitkala-Sa try to prevent the shingling of her hair?

    Long Answer Type Questions


    1. What activities did Bama witness on her way back from school?

    2. What are the similarities in the lives of Bama and Zitkala-Sa though they belong to different cultures?

    3. What oppression and discrimination did Zitkala-Sa and Bama experience during their childhood? How
    did they respond to their respective situations?

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