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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. What name does Elizabeth adopt at school?
2. Which of the following is the third of Gogo’s sons?
3. In what year is Elizabeth born?
4. At which Harare hospital does Jane work?
5. How does the memoir gloss “Ndinokuda”?
Short Essay Questions
1. What dream does Elizabeth have when she falls asleep in Sam’s car after he first takes her from Amai?
2. Why does Elizabeth walk away from Amai when the latter confronts her at school?
3. What job is Val able to get for Elizabeth?
4. For what reason does Elizabeth call the road through her village “the Danger-Danger road” (30-31)?
5. What is the primary rhetorical appeal (pathos, ethos, logos) of the final section of Chapter 1—from “I will never forget this moment” to the end (8)? Why and how is it the primary rhetorical appeal?
6. What contributions to the war effort does Gogo note women made?
7. What reason does Elizabeth give for refusing an offer of food from a village woman when Gogo is too long away?
8. What is Chimurenga in the memoir?
9. What happens with Nyari in Epworth?
10. What is the primary rhetorical appeal (pathos, ethos, logos) of the first section of Chapter 4 (41-44)? Why and how is it the primary rhetorical appeal?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
A lack of formal sectional division in the memoir obliges a fairly arbitrary breakdown of the text for purposes of study and discussion. On what grounds might the current divisions be in place? Why and how are they appropriate to the text?
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
To what genre other than memoir might I Am a Girl from Africa be considered to belong? Why might it fit into that genre?
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