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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. Chapter 15 opens with which of the following?

2. Which of the following immediately precedes Chapter 11?

3. Which of the following immediately precedes Chapter 9?

4. What does Elizabeth sell in her first “official” job?

5. Which of the following immediately precedes Chapter 10?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Ubuntu described in the memoir?

2. What objections are raised to including and appealing to men in HeForShe?

3. How is the death of Tanaka explained?

4. How does the narrator note having learned how to count?

5. What does Elizabeth come to realize about issues of gender inequality (157)?

6. How does Baba explain the decision to leave Elizabeth with Gogo?

7. What is the primary rhetorical appeal (pathos, ethos, logos) of the section of Chapter 8 beginning with “I am ecstatic” and ending with “what I have done” (114-115)? Why and how is it the primary rhetorical appeal?

8. What reason does Sam give for Elizabeth’s school paper failure?

9. What is the primary rhetorical appeal (pathos, ethos, logos) of the section of Chapter 12 in which Elizabeth explains her reason for appealing to men in HeForShe, beginning with “I am fully aware” and ending with “their professional dreams” (176)? Why and how is it the primary rhetorical appeal?

10. What prompts Henzi’s nickname?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How reliable a narrator is the protagonist of the memoir? What in the book indicates that reliability? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

Sources attest to the presence of I Am a Girl from Africa on best-seller lists. Assuming that sales figures reflect popularity, what accounts for the popularity of the memoir? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Overall, what is the most important theme of I Am a Girl from Africa. What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?

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