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

2. In Middle Passage, Part 4, Chapter 2, what did the author say was Tracey's mother's job?

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

4. In Part 4, Chapter 10 of Middle Passage, how many kids were in the Goth group the narrator joined?

5. At the end of Part 4, Chapter 11 of Middle Passage, what language did Carrapichano speak?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 1 of Day and Night, what did the narrator say about getting into college?

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

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

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

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

6. In Chapter 7 of Day and Night, why did the narrator burn Tracey's letter?

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

8. In Chapter 5 of Day and Night, what was the narrator's first job after college?

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

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

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 2

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 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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