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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 color is the dress Amai wears when she first picks Elizabeth up from Gogo?
2. In what year is Elizabeth born?
3. In the memoir, the phrase “Ko, chikafu?” carries which of the following meanings?
4. To which agency does the protagonist originally apply for work in London?
5. From what Tube stop does Elizabeth emerge to reach her first lodgings in London?
Short Essay Questions
1. What work does Elizabeth initially find in London?
2. What dream does Elizabeth have when she falls asleep in Sam’s car after he first takes her from Amai?
3. Why does the young Elizabeth note not being scared at Gogo’s extended absence assisting people in another village?
4. What reasons does Elizabeth give for keeping her room at the London hostel despite initial misgivings?
5. For what reason does Elizabeth call the road through her village “the Danger-Danger road” (30-31)?
6. What reason is given for Gogo having raised Elizabeth?
7. What justifications are used to refuse Elizabeth work initially?
8. What message does Amai leave for Elizabeth when Sam takes her?
9. What is the primary rhetorical appeal (pathos, ethos, logos) of the final section of Chapter 2 (12-21)? Why and how is it the primary rhetorical appeal?
10. What initially gives Elizabeth doubts as she arrives in London?
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
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?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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