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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 Night and Day, Part 5, Chapter 2, how was the community center that the narrator's mother opened destroyed?

2. In Part 6, Chapter 7 of Day and Night, what was the narrator's salary at YTV?

3. In Day and Night Part 6, Chapter 3, when did the Noted Activist buy his flat?

4. In Day and Night Part 6, Chapter 4, what did the narrator eat at the cafe with Lamin and Lulu?

5. What race was Rakim's mother?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 9 of Middle Passage, how would the narrator and her mother spend their Saturdays?

2. In Chapter 8 of Middle Passage, what was the house like where Aimee stayed?

3. In Chapter 2 of Middle Passage, what were age mates and how did they help Lamin?

4. In Middle Passage, Chapter 1, what was the kankurang?

5. In Chapter 7 of Day and Night, why did the narrator burn Tracey's letter?

6. In Chapter 12 of Middle Passage, where did the narrator see Tracey, and how did the narrator and her mother help her?

7. In Chapter 6 of Day and Night, how and why did the narrator think she was being punished?

8. In Chapter 1 of Night and Day, what was the narrator's father's life like?

9. In Chapter 4 of Middle Passage, how did authority shift between the narrator and her mother?

10. In Chapter 6 of Middle Passage, how was the trip to the village different from what the narrator had experienced before Aimee arrived?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The narrator’s first boyfriend in college was very controlling. How would you describe the relationship between the narrator and Rakim? How did that relationship reveal the narrator’s tendency to be subservient in relationships?

Essay Topic 2

The narrator and Tracey watched a 1936 movie titled Swing Time. What did the movie represent to the girls? What did it symbolize? How was the fact that the author used the title of the movie as the book title symbolic?

Essay Topic 3

There were some negative consequences of the school project. What were the negative consequences of the school project? What problems did the village face after the school was built? What did those issues reveal about the issues caused by charity and charitable acts?

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