View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator note eating?

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

3. Chapter 1 opens with which of the following?

4. What food does the rescue worker offer Elizabeth?

5. How does the narrator gloss the term “sekurus” in the memoir?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Gogo take with her when she leaves Elizabeth to go assist people in another village?

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

3. What work does Elizabeth initially find in London?

4. What message does Amai leave for Elizabeth when Sam takes her?

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

10. For what reason does Elizabeth call the road through her village “the Danger-Danger road” (30-31)?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Explicate the significance of the protagonist’s name.

Essay Topic 3

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?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 515 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample