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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. Chapter 14 opens with which of the following?
(a) “‘Shhh, shhh,’ I say softly.”
(b) “What the heck is the United Nations doing?”
(c) “I scan the small, cozy room painted a crisp white color and notice the plush, patterned burgundy rugs covering the wooden tiles.”
(d) “I take a deep breath, scan the packed room, and feel my heartbeat gallop away.”

2. For whom does Elizabeth work when she signs on with UN Women?
(a) Cleeves.
(b) Phumzile.
(c) Amazigo.
(d) Seiter.

3. With what organization is the narrator affiliated as she goes to Budongo?
(a) IMF.
(b) UPU.
(c) WHO.
(d) IMO.

4. Which of the following Nordic countries does the narrator cite as an example of improving gender parity?
(a) Iceland.
(b) Finland.
(c) Sweden.
(d) Norway.

5. Who is Elizabeth’s teacher in Budongo?
(a) Betty.
(b) Veronica.
(c) Mary.
(d) Jane.

Short Answer Questions

1. From which of the following does the comment come that precedes Chapter 8?

2. Which of the following immediately precedes Chapter 8?

3. From which of the following does the comment come that precedes Chapter 10?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Ubuntu described in the memoir?

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

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

4. What reason does Gogo note that children are born with clenched fists?

5. How is the death of Tanaka explained?

6. 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?

7. What is the primary rhetorical appeal (pathos, ethos, logos) of the section of Chapter 8 beginning with “I am ecstatic” and ending with “what I have done” (114-115)? Why and how is it the primary rhetorical appeal?

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

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

10. 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?

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