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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. How does the memoir gloss “tasununguka”?
2. As which of the following does the memoir gloss “Mwana wangu”?
3. To which of the following is the memoir dedicated?
4. In what village did the narrator live?
5. How does the narrator gloss the term “sekurus” in the memoir?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Elizabeth walk away from Amai when the latter confronts her at school?
2. What dream does Elizabeth have when she falls asleep in Sam’s car after he first takes her from Amai?
3. What goods does Elizabeth’s mother bring when she first arrives to pick Elizabeth up from Gogo?
4. What is the weather like when Elizabeth first arrives in London?
5. What reason is given for Gogo having raised Elizabeth?
6. How does Gogo report the Zimbabweans first greeted the British?
7. Why does Elizabeth note Gogo prefers to do her own selling?
8. What are the results of Elizabeth’s first year in school?
9. What is Chimurenga in the memoir?
10. What is the primary rhetorical appeal (pathos, ethos, logos) of the first two sections of Chapter 1—from the beginning of the chapter to “as if through mud” (1-3)? Why and how is it the primary rhetorical appeal?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Again, typically, an epigraph is expected to speak to or set the tone for the work it introduces. Taken together, do the epigraphs of individual chapters in I Am a Girl from Africa do so for the memoir as a whole? How or how not?
Essay Topic 2
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 narrator? How does that effect manifest from the text of the memoir?
Essay Topic 3
Assuming that the memoir should be standard reading for a given class and level, what class and what level? Why that class and why that level? What in the text suggests as much, and how does it do so?
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