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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. Where were the dance classes held that the narrator and Tracey attended in Early Days, Part 1, Chapter 2?

2. What is the date in the Prologue?

3. In Chapter 7 of Early and Late, what did the narrator like to read?

4. In Early and Late, Chapter 3, how tall was Aimee?

5. In Intermission, Part 3, Chapter 2, how long had the narrator worked for Aimee?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Intermission, Chapter 3, how did the narrator describe Washington Square Park?

2. At the end of Part 2, Chapter 1 in Early and Late, what did the narrator's mom do and how did the girls react?

3. What did the narrator and Aimee remember about their meeting and how it lead to Aimee hiring the narrator in Part 2, Chapter 3 of Early and Late?

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

5. In Part 2, Chapter 5 of Early and Late, why did the narrator not want children?

6. What happened to YTV, where the narrator had worked?

7. Where did the narrator shop for an outfit to wear when she met Aimee, and what did she buy in Part 2, Chapter 3 of Early and Late?

8. In Intermission, Chapter 2, how did Aimee have an unusual attitude to time?

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

10. At the end of Intermission, Chapter 2, what did Aimee ask the narrator?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The narrator discovered an actress who looked very much like Tracey in the old films that she watched. What was the narrator’s opinion of the life that LeGon lived? How did the narrator learn about the racism and struggles that LeGon faced in her career? How did learning about LeGon’s struggles affect the narrator and her perceptions of people and life?

Essay Topic 2

Fern made a comment that “with wealth you get to be thoughtless” (253). Why did Fern make that comment? What did he mean by that comment? How did that comment reflect on Aimee’s work in Africa?

Essay Topic 3

The narrator had the guidance of her parents when she approached adolescence. Tracey did not. How did the two girls approach adolescence differently? How did adolescence affect the girls? Why was adolescence referred to as a middle passage?

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