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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. Chapter 8 opens with which of the following?
2. Which of the following immediately precedes Chapter 14?
3. In which of the following does Chapter 12 begin?
4. From which of the following does the comment come that precedes Chapter 14?
5. Which of the following immediately precedes Chapter 11?
Short Essay Questions
1. For what reason is Elizabeth’s family grateful for her paid position at the United Nations?
2. What reason does Gogo note that children are born with clenched fists?
3. How does the narrator note having learned how to count?
4. With what is Elizabeth afflicted in what she reports as her first close encounter with her own death?
5. What does Elizabeth come to realize about issues of gender inequality (157)?
6. What is the primary rhetorical appeal (pathos, ethos, logos) of the first section of Chapter 8 (101)? Why and how is it the primary rhetorical appeal?
7. What objections are raised to including and appealing to men in HeForShe?
8. What is the primary rhetorical appeal (pathos, ethos, logos) of the section of Chapter 8 beginning with “I am ecstatic” and ending with “what I have done” (114-115)? Why and how is it the primary rhetorical appeal?
9. Why, per Elizabeth, does she buy Amai and Baba a home?
10. What is Elizabeth’s first assignment in Cleeves’s employ?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
To what genre other than memoir might I Am a Girl from Africa be considered to belong? Why might it fit into that genre?
Essay Topic 2
Typically, an epigraph is expected to speak to or set the tone for the work it introduces. Do the epigraphs of individual chapters in I Am a Girl from Africa do so for their chapters? How or how not?
Essay Topic 3
Explicate the significance of the protagonist’s name.
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