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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. In the memoir, the phrase “Une muvra?” carries which of the following meanings?
2. What fruit does the narrator remark is in the Good Forest?
3. Which of the following immediately precedes Chapter 6?
4. In the memoir, “mukana” has most nearly which of the following meanings?
5. What is Sam’s relationship to Elizabeth?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the primary rhetorical appeal (pathos, ethos, logos) of the first two sections of Chapter 1—from the beginning of the chapter to “as if through mud” (1-3)? Why and how is it the primary rhetorical appeal?
2. What does Elizabeth note is the primary mission of UNICEF?
3. What is the primary rhetorical appeal (pathos, ethos, logos) of the first section of Chapter 7 (85-86)? Why and how is it the primary rhetorical appeal?
4. Why does Elizabeth adopt a new name at school?
5. What challenges to visiting the United Nations’ offices does Elizabeth face while in London?
6. What is the primary rhetorical appeal (pathos, ethos, logos) of the final section of Chapter 2 (12-21)? Why and how is it the primary rhetorical appeal?
7. For what reason does Elizabeth call the road through her village “the Danger-Danger road” (30-31)?
8. What work does Elizabeth initially find in London?
9. What reasons does Elizabeth give for keeping her room at the London hostel despite initial misgivings?
10. What initially gives Elizabeth doubts as she arrives in London?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
A lack of formal sectional division in the memoir obliges a fairly arbitrary breakdown of the text for purposes of study and discussion. How might the memoir be sectioned off other than it currently is? Why might those divisions be appropriate, based on the text and its contexts of composition and reception?
Essay Topic 2
The protagonist of the memoir is clear. Who is the second-most-important character in the book? How does the memoir support such an assertion?
Essay Topic 3
To what genre other than memoir might I Am a Girl from Africa be considered to belong? Why might it fit into that genre?
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