Educated - Summer Reading Check

The author’s father pressures his wife to

• become an elder in the church

• work as a cashier in the local grocery store

• learn how to play the organ in their local church

• become a midwife

After she recovers from the first car accident, the author’s mother uses “muscle testing” to

• prevent early labor pains in women with whom she works

• silence her husband

• help her diagnose illnesses she and others suffer

• help her regain the full use of her lower extremities

As a girl, the author discovers she

• can solve complex algebraic equations in her head

• has a lovely singing voice and a passion for musical theater

• is a better shot with a rifle than any of her older brothers

• has a knack for healing wounded birds

This brother physically and mentally abuses the author and her sister Audrey

• Shawn

• Tyler

• Luke

• Richard

In one of her first classes, the narrator asks her professor to define a word she does not know the definition of:

• perspicacity

• alacrity

• Holocaust

• evolution

When the author’s friend, Charles, visits her home, he says it smells like

• manure

• oil and grease

• fried food

• rotted plants

The author’s father

• hits a cow while riding a motorcycle

• suffers debilitating burns over much of his body

• is arrested for child abuse

• opens a slaughterhouse

NOT one of the universities that the author attends

• Princeton

• Brigham Young University

• Cambridge

• Harvard

The author’s mother begins a lucrative cottage industry selling

• cough drops

• goat cheese

• essential oils

• beeswax candles

The author’s final words to her father, a response to, “I love you, you know that?”

• “I love you too, Daddy.”

• “I hate you, though.”

• “I’m not so sure, but I’ll think about it.”

• “I do. That has never been the issue.”