View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the second school Camara attends?
(a) The English school.
(b) The African school.
(c) The Koran school.
(d) The French School.

2. Camara tells who about what has been happening at school?
(a) His father.
(b) The apprentices.
(c) His uncle.
(d) His mother.

3. Where does Camara's grandmother store milk?
(a) In a calabash.
(b) In a jug.
(c) In a coconut.
(d) In a bowl.

4. How old is Camara in his earliest memories?
(a) Five or six.
(b) Four or five.
(c) Three or four.
(d) Six or seven.

5. What does Camara's mother forbid the men to do to the animal that she has to bring to its feet?
(a) To hit it.
(b) To wash it.
(c) To pet it.
(d) To feed it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does legend say about twin brothers?

2. What does Camara's father do when he hears the douga?

3. Who do the older children take their frustration out on?

4. Who do the children occasionally complain to when being taken advantage of?

5. Who is the douga reserved for?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Camara's mother's special powers manifest themselves as physical protection?

2. What do the reapers do while they work on the fields, and how is their relationship?

3. One day, a woman comes to Camara's father's shop with gold. She wants the gold made into a trinket. What is special about having a trinket made?

4. Why does Camara's father always do the gold work himself, never leaving it to the apprentices or other workers?

5. How is the special black snake involved with Camara's father's gold work?

6. While he was growing up, what were the rules during meals in Camara's parents' household?

7. A few months after all the beatings at school, the director of the French school is forced to resign because of a petition signed by all the parents. What did Camara's father have to do with this?

8. Where are Camara's parents' huts located, and what are the consequences of living in that location?

9. What does the praise-singer who acts as a middle man between the woman with the gold and Camara's father do in the workshop?

10. When does young Camara find his friends in Tindican, and what do they do?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,021 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample