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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 do the reapers use to do their work?
2. What is a sayon?
3. Who embraces Camara when he arrives in Tindican?
4. Why does Camara's father always do the gold work himself?
5. What do many people think of country folk?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Camara's grandmother's hut look like?
2. 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?
3. Describe the initial relationship between Camara and Fanta?
4. Camara's mother has special powers. How is that manifested in chapter 5? What is her association to a horse?
5. What happens in Tindican during the rice season in December?
6. When Camara is a child, what are the sleeping arrangements for his family in Kouroussa?
7. What do you know about Tindican? Where is it located, and how does Camara get there? What is special about the trip?
8. What does the second half of the reapers' days look like?
9. According to Camara, what do many people think about country people, and what is Camara's opinion about them?
10. What is Camara thinking while he is in the rice fields with all the reapers?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The character of the praise-singer is mentioned in a few chapters of the "The Dark Child." What is a praise-singer? What is his role towards the community? When is he important? Explore his presence throughout the book; describe his tasks, influence and attitude. Compare/contrast his appearances in the different chapters.
Essay Topic 2
Towards the last chapters of the book, the ocean plays an important role in Camara's life. What does the ocean symbolize? What happens at the ocean? How is love related to this theme? Why is the ocean special and different from what he knows? What does his love of the ocean foreshadow? How is the ocean important in the last chapter? Relate Camara's actions in chapter 12 to his aspirations in chapter 10.
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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