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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 Part 4, Chapter 8 of Middle Passage, how old were Jay and Kara?
2. How old was Sarah Forbes Bonetta when she was kidnapped by Dahomey raiders?
3. In Night and Day, Part 5, Chapter 3, what time did the narrator usually awake?
4. In Middle Passage, Part 4, Chapter 5, what actor did the author remember played in Ali Baba Goes to Town?
5. In Night and Day, Part 5, Chapter 1, what did the narrator's mother want to turn into a community meeting space?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 6 of Day and Night, when did Lamin first appear publicly with Aimee?
2. 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?
3. In Chapter 2 of Day and Night, what was a year off?
4. In Chapter 2 of Middle Passage, what were age mates and how did they help Lamin?
5. In Chapter 1 of Night and Day, what was the narrator's father's life like?
6. In Chapter 6 of Middle Passage, how was the trip to the village different from what the narrator had experienced before Aimee arrived?
7. In Night and Day, Chapter 3, what did the narrator and Fern eat together for the evening meal?
8. In Chapter 11 of Middle Passage, who was Hawa?
9. In Chapter 9 of Middle Passage, how would the narrator and her mother spend their Saturdays?
10. In chapter 6 of Night and Day, why did Miss Isobel come to visit the narrator and her mother?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
The narrator and Tracey watched a 1936 movie titled Swing Time. What did the movie represent to the girls? What did it symbolize? How was the fact that the author used the title of the movie as the book title symbolic?
Essay Topic 3
When money was stolen from Miss Isabel’s dance school, Tracey was immediately a suspect. Why was Tracey a suspect, but the narrator was not? How did class and family differences determine who was a suspect and who was not?
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