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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. How does the memoir gloss “Muramba Tsvina”?

2. Under which UN Secretary-General does HeForShe begin?

3. To which of the following does Osi compare Elizabeth?

4. What nickname associates with Henzi?

5. Which of the following means “disease” in the memoir?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator note having learned how to count?

2. How is Ubuntu described in the memoir?

3. How does Baba explain the decision to leave Elizabeth with Gogo?

4. What is Elizabeth’s first assignment in Cleeves’s employ?

5. How are people in Tanzania persuaded to allow women to distribute medication?

6. What system does the narrator describe as at work in Karonga to end child marriages?

7. How does Elizabeth note a neighboring village had treated an HIV/AIDS patient?

8. What reason does Gogo note that children are born with clenched fists?

9. What reason does Sam give for Elizabeth’s school paper failure?

10. What does Elizabeth come to realize about issues of gender inequality (157)?

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

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 3

Sources attest to the presence of I Am a Girl from Africa on best-seller lists. Assuming that sales figures reflect popularity, what accounts for the popularity of the memoir? How does it do so?

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