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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. Over access to what do the lion and the elephant fight in Gogo’s story?
2. Which of the following immediately precedes Chapter 14?
3. Who is Elizabeth’s teacher in Budongo?
4. Under which UN Secretary-General does HeForShe begin?
5. Into what position is Elizabeth first promoted while working with Cleeves?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the primary rhetorical appeal (pathos, ethos, logos) of the final section of Chapter 14 (209-10)? Why and how is it the primary rhetorical appeal?
2. How does the narrator note having learned how to count?
3. How is the death of Tanaka explained?
4. How does the memoir gloss intersectionality?
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 system does the narrator describe as at work in Karonga to end child marriages?
8. Why, per Elizabeth, does she buy Amai and Baba a home?
9. With what is Elizabeth afflicted in what she reports as her first close encounter with her own death?
10. How does Baba explain the decision to leave Elizabeth with Gogo?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Consider who receives a full name in the memoir, who receives only a partial name, and who receives only a nickname or a pet name. What significance accrues to naming practices in the text, and how does the memoir present that significance?
Essay Topic 2
Notably, there is not much mention of romantic love in the memoir. What effect does this have on the reading, and how is that effect achieved?
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?
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