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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Over access to what do the lion and the elephant fight in Gogo’s story?
(a) Crystal Heart.
(b) Horn of Plenty.
(c) Tree of Harmony.
(d) Book of Life.

2. To which of the following does Osi compare Elizabeth?
(a) Ostrich.
(b) Turkey.
(c) Duck.
(d) Chicken.

3. Which of the following immediately precedes Chapter 11?
(a) “Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.”
(b) “If you pick up one end of the stick, you also pick up the other.”
(c) “I am because we are, and because we are, you are.”
(d) “Where there is love, there is no darkness.”

4. Chapter 15 opens with which of the following?
(a) “‘Shhh, shhh,’ I say softly.”
(b) “I scan the small, cozy room painted a crisp white color and notice the plush, patterned burgundy rugs covering the wooden tiles.”
(c) “I take a deep breath, scan the packed room, and feel my heartbeat gallop away.”
(d) “What the heck is the United Nations doing?”

5. Which of the following *Asian countries* does the narrator cite as an example of improving gender parity?
(a) Korea.
(b) Mongolia.
(c) Japan.
(d) China.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which UN Secretary-General does Elizabeth meet first?

2. In which *city* does Chapter 8 begin?

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

4. At which of the following does Elizabeth enroll for graduate school?

5. In which of the following does Chapter 9 begin?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What system does the narrator describe as at work in Karonga to end child marriages?

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

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

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

7. Why, per Elizabeth, does she buy Amai and Baba a home?

8. Explicate the irony in the final section of Chapter 8 (115-16).

9. How is Ubuntu described in the memoir?

10. How does the memoir gloss intersectionality?

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