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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. Who is the praise-singer talking about in chapter 2?
2. What does Camara's grandmother do with him when she takes him around her village?
3. The students' parents have been unaware of the atmosphere surrounding Camara's school. What type of atmosphere has it been?
4. What does Camara love to do in the evenings while in Tindican?
5. Why does Camara assume that his father underwent the rituals of preparing to work with gold before he even stepped foot in the shop the morning of the woman's arrival with gold?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. Camara remembers seeing a snake for the first time and being fascinated with its glittering eyes. What does he do to the snake, and what happens next?
3. What is Camara thinking while he is in the rice fields with all the reapers?
4. What happens when Camara's friend Kouyate Karmoko says that he's had enough after a particularly cruel beating?
5. Describe the character of Camara's father.
6. When Camara arrives in Tindican as a child, how does his grandmother react?
7. How do Camara's mother's special powers manifest themselves as physical protection?
8. What is the result of years of abuse for the school children?
9. What do the reapers do while they work on the fields, and how is their relationship?
10. Why does Camara's father always do the gold work himself, never leaving it to the apprentices or other workers?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
One day Camara finds a little black snake with a strikingly marked body. This snake is special and plays an important role in the first chapters of "The Dark Child." What is the role of this snake in the family? How did he become important? What does his presence mean to the different main characters? Relate this snake's significance to the community, to Camara, to his mother, and to his father? How does the snake add to Camara's father's influence and status in the community? How is the snake involved in the work environment of Camara's father? Support your answers with examples from the book.
Essay Topic 2
Camara's mother has special powers. How is this explored in chapter 5? What do people request from her? Why? How does the procedure go? How do these powers influence her character and her life? How do these powers relate to her physical protection? Provide supporting evidence about how Camara's mother differs from other people in regards to the Niger river.
Essay Topic 3
In chapter 3, the author introduces two characters of a different nature that are very closely related. Who are these characters? How do they differ? What do they have in common? What is their importance to Camara? What is their involvement in the community? What are their contrasts/comparisons to the previously mentioned characters?
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