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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 Early Days, Part 1, Chapter 9, how old were the narrator's half brother and sister?

2. In Intermission, Part 3, Chapter 2, what time was it when Aimee told Errol to drive to midtown and back?

3. In Intermission, Part 3, Chapter 3, where were the narrator and Aimee by the time the narrator finished answering Aimee's question?

4. In Intermission, Part 3, Chapter 2, in Time Square, what clothing company ad did the narrator notice?

5. At the end of Early and Late, Chapter 4, what did Tracey not want the narrator to talk about?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Intermission, Chapter 1, what did Aimee help create?

2. In Early Days, Chapter 3, why did the narrator have to stay out of their flat until dinner time?

3. In Early Days, Chapter 14, how did Tracey help the narrator?

4. In Early Days, Chapter 7, what were the schools like that Tracey and the narrator attended?

5. In Early Days, Chapter 1, how did the narrator meet Tracey and how did she describe Tracey?

6. In Early Days, Chapter 2, how did the narrator describe the church and the neighborhood where she had dance lessons?

7. In Intermission, Chapter 4, what did the narrator remember about her father's funeral?

8. In Intermission, Chapter 1, what did Aimee believe would make a real change in the world?

9. In Early and Late, Part 2, Chapter 1, What was the sleeve of the single like that the narrator and Tracey bought for a birthday present?

10. In Part 2, Chapter 2 of Early and Late, what did the narrator say about her boss?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The narrator’s mother and Tracey’s mother had similar socio-economic backgrounds, but they were very different in other ways. How were the two women alike and unalike? How did who they were and how they faced life have a positive or negative effect on their daughter’s lives?

Essay Topic 2

The narrator intended to do something about Tracey’s children at the end of the novel. Why did she intend to do something about Tracey’s children? What did she see Tracey doing with her children? What did seeing the family dancing make the narrator realize? How did that scene affect the narrator and her plans?

Essay Topic 3

Aimee was isolated from much of what African life was really like when she visited. How was Aimee insulated from life in the village? In what way did Aimee think everyone was like her? How did that color the way that she saw life in the village and how she tried to help? Why were their culture clashes between Aimee and the villagers?

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