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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. To which agency does the protagonist originally apply for work in London?

2. Which of the following languages does Sam speak?

3. What name does Elizabeth adopt at school?

4. What color are Amai’s shoes when she first picks Elizabeth up from Gogo?

5. From which of the following does the comment come that precedes Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Gogo define “shinga” for Elizabeth?

2. Why does the young Elizabeth note not being scared at Gogo’s extended absence assisting people in another village?

3. What job is Val able to get for Elizabeth?

4. What contributions to the war effort does Gogo note women made?

5. What goods does Elizabeth’s mother bring when she first arrives to pick Elizabeth up from Gogo?

6. What are the results of Elizabeth’s first year in school?

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

8. What does Elizabeth note is the primary mission of UNICEF?

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

10. What foods are noted to be grown near Gogo’s hut (2)?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The narrator makes mention of “so many [opportunities] in my life for which I am deeply grateful” (73). What effect does that expression of gratitude have for the reader? How does that effect manifest from the text of the memoir?

Essay Topic 2

Much is made in the memoir of the rural African origins of the narrating protagonist. How would the work change were the narrator of a different racial / ethnic background? Why would it change in those ways?

Essay Topic 3

Overall, what is the most important theme of I Am a Girl from Africa. What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?

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