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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 3, when was the school finished in Africa?

2. In Middle Passage, Part 4, Chapter 3, what was the temperature as the narrator waited for a ferry?

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 Part 6, Chapter 5 of Day and Night, what did Bahram say was his game?

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

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 9 of Middle Passage, how would the narrator and her mother spend their Saturdays?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There were some negative consequences of the school project. What were the negative consequences of the school project? What problems did the village face after the school was built? What did those issues reveal about the issues caused by charity and charitable acts?

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

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?

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