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

2. In Night and Day, Part 5, Chapter 1, when did the community meeting space open?

3. In Part 6, Chapter 7 of Day and Night, how much older was the man Tracey was having an affair with than she?

4. In Day and Night Part 6, Chapter 3, when did the Noted Activist buy his flat?

5. In Night and Day, Part 5, Chapter 5, what type of ice is being served at the party?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

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 Chapter 2 of Day and Night, what was a year off?

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

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

10. In Middle Passage, Chapter 1, what was the kankurang?

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 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 3

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?

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