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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 did Clemantine give up when she made her first bracelet?

2. In Chapter 15, what was the latest that Clemantine could go to the water pump in order to avoid being raped?

3. In Chapter 11, what job did Claire get?

4. What job did Rob have in Chapter 11?

5. In Chapter 15, how large was the room that Claire and the family rented in the slum?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Rob treat Claire in Chapter 15?

2. In Chapter 13, how did Clemantine get sick, and how did she get better?

3. What jobs did Claire have when they moved a few miles out of Durban?

4. What was the camp at Maputo like?

5. In Chapter 14, how did Clemantine believe there could be equality?

6. What happened when Clemantine went to the pharmacy in Chapter 16?

7. What good and bad news did a dean at Yale have for Clemantine in Chapter 12?

8. What was the pre-orientation camp like that Clemantine attended before her freshman year at Yale?

9. Why did Clemantine struggle to navigate the lines between the African and African American communities?

10. When did Clemantine start making bracelets and what did she do with them?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Claire and Clemantine had different ideas about forgiveness. How did Claire and Clemantine have different ideas about forgiveness? How did not being able to forgive affect Clemantine? Was Claire better off because she learned to forgive?

Essay Topic 2

Clemantine had to struggle to discover who she was. Why did Clemantine struggle to discover who she was and who she wanted to become? Was she able to reclaim or recreate her identity?

Essay Topic 3

Clemantine was introduced to the word “genocide” in an eighth-grade class. Why did Claire dislike the word “genocide”? Why did she believe it did not convey the horror of what happened?

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