4. Which of the following immediately precedes Chapter 8?
(a) “If you pick up one end of the stick, you also pick up the other.”
(b) “Where there is love, there is no darkness.”
(c) “Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.”
(d) “I am because we are, and because we are, you are.”

5. From which of the following does the comment come that precedes Chapter 15?
(a) New York.
(b) Niger.
(c) Congo.
(d) Ghana.

Short Answer Questions

1. Over access to what do the lion and the elephant fight in Gogo’s story?

2. As which of the following is HIV/AIDS euphemized in Harare?

3. Chapter 13 opens with which of the following?

4. What language does the narrator note is spoken in Ethiopia?

5. With which cancer is Cleeves diagnosed?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the primary rhetorical appeal (pathos, ethos, logos) of the first section of Chapter 12 (167-68)? Why and how is it the primary rhetorical appeal?

2. How is the death of Tanaka explained?

3. For what reason is Elizabeth’s family grateful for her paid position at the United Nations?

4. What is the primary rhetorical appeal (pathos, ethos, logos) of the final section of Chapter 14 (209-10)? Why and how is it the primary rhetorical appeal?

5. What is Elizabeth’s first assignment in Cleeves’s employ?

6. 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?

7. With what is Elizabeth afflicted in what she reports as her first close encounter with her own death?

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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