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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 does Tituba decide she wants to be a source of?

2. What cycle does the text refer to?

3. Who is Abena?

4. Tituba's story is intended to be perceived in what way?

5. At sunrise, what does Tituba sacrifice?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Hester?

2. What power does Tituba desire?

3. What does an escapee say the reason is for the Salem Witch Trials?

4. Describe Christianity in Salem.

5. What prediction can you make for Tituba based on the Parris family beginning to distrust her?

6. Why does Conde dismiss The Crucible and The Scarlet Letter?

7. Why is I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem a mock-epic?

8. What relationship does Conde claim to have with Tituba?

9. What role do children play in Tituba's life?

10. What is the climax of I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the significance of the way Conde incorporates literature such as Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Miller's The Crucible in I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem? How does this incorporation build a stronger novel?

Essay Topic 2

Why does Conde dismiss texts such as The Crucible and The Scarlet Letter?

Essay Topic 3

Why is love's ambivalence a theme in the text? Who does Tituba have ambivalent relationships with? What do these relationships tell the reader about Tituba?

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