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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. What language does the narrator note is spoken in Ethiopia?
2. From which of the following does the comment come that precedes Chapter 15?
3. Chapter 10 opens with which of the following?
4. Which of the following immediately precedes Chapter 13?
5. From which of the following does the comment come that precedes Chapter 10?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is Ubuntu described in the memoir?
2. 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?
3. What is the primary rhetorical appeal (pathos, ethos, logos) of the section of Chapter 12 in which Elizabeth explains her reason for appealing to men in HeForShe, beginning with “I am fully aware” and ending with “their professional dreams” (176)? Why and how is it the primary rhetorical appeal?
4. 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?
5. How does the narrator note having learned how to count?
6. Why, per Elizabeth, does she buy Amai and Baba a home?
7. What is Elizabeth’s first assignment in Cleeves’s employ?
8. What system does the narrator describe as at work in Karonga to end child marriages?
9. For what reason is Elizabeth’s family grateful for her paid position at the United Nations?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Overall, what is the most important theme of I Am a Girl from Africa. What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?
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
The protagonist of the memoir is clear. Who is the second-most-important character in the book? How does the memoir support such an assertion?
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