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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 4 of Middle Passage, when did the narrator meet Tracey's father?

2. How old was Carrapichano, the project manager, in Part 4, Chapter 6 from Middle Passage?

3. In Part 6, Chapter 5 of Day and Night, what job did Tracey suggest to the narrator?

4. In Part 4, Chapter 11 of Middle Passage, how many months after the first visit to Africa did the narrator return?

5. In Part 6, Chapter 7 of Day and Night, what was the narrator's salary at YTV?

Short Essay Questions

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

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 Middle Passage, Chapter 1, what was the kankurang?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

The narrator allowed the people in her life to take her identity. What events in the novel helped the narrator find her identity? How did finding her identity help her mature and come of age?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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