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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 Night and Day, Part 5, Chapter 2, how was the community center that the narrator's mother opened destroyed?

2. At the end of Night and Day, Part 5, Chapter 3, how many chairs are set up?

3. In Night and Day, Part 5, Chapter 3, when was the school finished in Africa?

4. In Day and Night Part 6, Chapter 3, what did the narrator's father's grandparents do for a living?

5. Where did Hawa's half-brother go to a Quaker college in the United States?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. In Chapter 5 of Day and Night, where did Tracey and the narrator meet and what did Tracey suggest?

6. In Chapter 7 of Middle Passage, why did the narrator's father say in the flat after he and the narrator's mother split up?

7. In Chapter 9 of Middle Passage, how would the narrator and her mother spend their Saturdays?

8. In Chapter 1 of Night and Day, what was the narrator's father's life like?

9. In Chapter 4 of Middle Passage, how did authority shift between the narrator and her mother?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Aimee had children and believed that any woman should be able to handle single parenthood like she did. What was Aimee’s view of motherhood and what type of a mother was she to her children? Why did most single mothers, like the narrator’s or Tracey’s mother, struggle with being a single parent in contrast to Aimee?

Essay Topic 3

There were some negative consequences of the school project. What were the negative consequences of the school project? What problems did the village face after the school was built? What did those issues reveal about the issues caused by charity and charitable acts?

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