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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. With what organization is the narrator affiliated as she goes to Budongo?
2. In which of the following does Chapter 12 begin?
3. Which of the following *Asian countries* does the narrator cite as an example of improving gender parity?
4. What nickname associates with Henzi?
5. Chapter 14 opens with which of the following?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the narrator note having learned how to count?
2. What is the primary rhetorical appeal (pathos, ethos, logos) of the first section of Chapter 12 (167-68)? Why and how is it the primary rhetorical appeal?
3. With what is Elizabeth afflicted in what she reports as her first close encounter with her own death?
4. Describe Elizabeth’s progress toward Budongo at the beginning of Chapter 9.
5. What does Elizabeth come to realize about issues of gender inequality (157)?
6. What reason does Gogo note that children are born with clenched fists?
7. 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?
8. How does Baba explain the decision to leave Elizabeth with Gogo?
9. What is Elizabeth’s first assignment in Cleeves’s employ?
10. Explicate the irony in the final section of Chapter 8 (115-16).
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
Much is made in the memoir of the rural African origins of the narrating protagonist. How would the work change were the narrator of an urban background? Why would it change in those ways?
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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