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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. What does legend say about twin brothers?
2. What does young Camara do in his father's forge?
3. What does Camara love to do in the evenings while in Tindican?
4. When the special snake began to appear on a regular basis, what did it do?
5. Why does Camara pull Fanta's hair?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the behavior of Camara's school teacher in the French school he attended as a child.
2. How are Camara's father's apprentices treated, and how does Camara feel about this?
3. Camara's mother has special powers. How is that manifested in chapter 5? What is her association to a horse?
4. A few months after all the beatings at school, the director of the French school is forced to resign because of a petition signed by all the parents. What did Camara's father have to do with this?
5. Describe the character of Lansana.
6. What do the reapers do while they work on the fields, and how is their relationship?
7. One day, a woman comes to Camara's father's shop with gold. She wants the gold made into a trinket. What is special about having a trinket made?
8. What does the praise-singer who acts as a middle man between the woman with the gold and Camara's father do in the workshop?
9. Camara remembers seeing a snake for the first time and being fascinated with its glittering eyes. What does he do to the snake, and what happens next?
10. When Camara is a child, what are the sleeping arrangements for his family in Kouroussa?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
After the gold work of Camara's father is finished, the praise-singer bursts into a douga. Describe in your own words, based on the context of the book, what a douga is. What is its influence on the people of Camara's community? Why is it sung? How do the characters react to it? What is its negative side effect? Why is it important in the African culture?
Essay Topic 2
Chapter 2 of "The Dark Child" talks mainly about the gold work Camara's father performs. This gold work creates positive and negative reactions throughout the chapter. Compare/contrast the reactions of the chapter's characters in relation to the significance of the gold work. Use supporting evidence to discuss the different emotions towards the gold/gold work.
Essay Topic 3
In chapter 7 Konden Diara is introduced. What or who is Konden Diara? What does he represent? Relate Konden Diara to the rite of passage. Describe his presence in detail, using supporting evidence from chapter 7. How does he influence the boys' feelings? What do they know about him? Does he show up during the ritual? How? When? What is the secret behind him?
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