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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. Who teaches Tituba about herbs?

2. Tituba and the two girls witness what kind of execution in the streets?

3. What does Tituba say made Abena beautiful?

4. At sunrise, what does Tituba sacrifice?

5. What defines Tituba's love for John Indian?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Conde juxtapose Parris and Satan?

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

3. Does Tituba fear death?

4. What roles do Ann Putnam and Elizabeth Proctor play in Tituba's life?

5. Why was the rabbit Iphigene gave Tituba symbolic?

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

7. What role does Christopher play in Tituba's life?

8. What kind of relationship do Hester and Tituba have?

9. Compare and contrast the Boston home with Tituba's home in Barbados.

10. Why is a theme in the book 'the ambivalence of love'?

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

What makes discrimination a theme in I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem? What literary devices contribute to the theme of discrimination?

Essay Topic 3

How does Tituba's death illuminate mother-daughter relationships?

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