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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 1, when did the community meeting space open?

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

3. In Night and Day, Part 5, Chapter 1, what color did the narrator help her mother paint the new community meeting space?

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

5. In Middle Passage, Part 4, Chapter 1, who was the narrator with when she saw a dance performed by the greatest dancer she had ever seen?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 2 of Middle Passage, what were age mates and how did they help Lamin?

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

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

4. In Chapter 12 of Middle Passage, where did the narrator see Tracey, and how did the narrator and her mother help her?

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

10. In Night and Day Chapter 2, who did the narrator see Louie with?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Tracey and the narrator became friends at a dance class when they were ten. What type of a relationship did the girls have during their childhood? How did their relationship change as they approached adolescence? What type of relationship did they have as they became teens and then adults? How did their relationship change over time?

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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