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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. In which of the following does Chapter 12 begin?
2. Which of the following means “disease” in the memoir?
3. Which of the following immediately precedes Chapter 14?
4. What is the capital of Tanzania?
5. Which African country does the narrator hold up as a useful model of gender parity?
Short Essay Questions
1. What reason does Gogo note that children are born with clenched fists?
2. How is Ubuntu described in the memoir?
3. How does Elizabeth note a neighboring village had treated an HIV/AIDS patient?
4. For what reason is Elizabeth’s family grateful for her paid position at the United Nations?
5. Why, per Elizabeth, does she buy Amai and Baba a home?
6. What reason does Sam give for Elizabeth’s school paper failure?
7. How are people in Tanzania persuaded to allow women to distribute medication?
8. What is Elizabeth’s first assignment in Cleeves’s employ?
9. 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?
10. What objections are raised to including and appealing to men in HeForShe?
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
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?
Essay Topic 3
Much is made in the memoir of the rural African origins of the narrating protagonist. How would the work change were the narrator of a different racial / ethnic background? Why would it change in those ways?
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