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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. From what Tube stop does Elizabeth emerge to reach her first lodgings in London?

2. How does Amai pass the time along the bus ride away from Gogo?

3. Which of the following immediately precedes Chapter 2?

4. Chapter 6 opens with which of the following?

5. Which of the following immediately precedes Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Elizabeth adopt a new name at school?

2. What is Chimurenga in the memoir?

3. What justifications are used to refuse Elizabeth work initially?

4. What jobs does Val note his mother had done after his father’s death?

5. What is the weather like when Elizabeth first arrives in London?

6. What is the primary rhetorical appeal (pathos, ethos, logos) of the first section of Chapter 7 (85-86)? Why and how is it the primary rhetorical appeal?

7. What dream does Elizabeth have when she falls asleep in Sam’s car after he first takes her from Amai?

8. How does Elizabeth arrange to pay for her rent at the hostel after her second month there?

9. How does Gogo report the Zimbabweans first greeted the British?

10. What happens with Nyari in Epworth?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How reliable a narrator is the protagonist of the memoir? What in the book indicates that reliability? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

To what extent can the memoir be read as an account of generational success? What in the memoir justifies such a reading, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

The protagonist of the memoir is clear. Who is the second-most-important character in the book? How does the memoir support such an assertion?

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