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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 Day and Night, Part 6, Chapter 1, how far was the university the narrator attended from the English Channel?

2. In Part 5, Chapter 6, Night and Day, how much money was missing from Miss Isabel's cash boxes?

3. In Night and Day, Part 5, Chapter 2, where did the narrator see Louie?

4. In Part 6, Chapter 5 of Day and Night, where did the narrator work while waiting to find a job in media?

5. At the end of Part 4, Chapter 4, Middle Passage, how old was the narrator?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 6 of Middle Passage, how was the trip to the village different from what the narrator had experienced before Aimee arrived?

2. In Chapter 4, where did the narrator and Lamin go and what did they do there?

3. In Chapter 1 of Day and Night, what did the narrator say about getting into college?

4. In Chapter 11 of Middle Passage, who was Hawa?

5. In Chapter 6 of Day and Night, how and why did the narrator think she was being punished?

6. In Night and Day, Chapter 3, what did the narrator and Fern eat together for the evening meal?

7. In Chapter 8 of Middle Passage, what was the house like where Aimee stayed?

8. In Chapter 7 of Day and Night, who was Tracey having an affair with?

9. In Night and Day, Chapter 4, what did Tracey and the narrator do for Miss Isabel.

10. In Night and Day, Chapter 5, where did Hawa's half brother go to school?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

The narrator’s mother was critical of the narrator’s relationship with Aimee. Why was the narrator’s mother critical of the narrator’s relationship with Aimee? How and why did the narrator’s mother believe that the relationship was damaging to the narrator?

Essay Topic 3

The narrator had a friend named Lily. What do the stories told about the narrator’s time with Lily reveal about social class and about racism? How did Lily’s birthday party particularly reveal how social class and racism affected the relationship between the girls?

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