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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. Where does Darling say she has seen the queen from the picture before in "Blak Power"?

2. What is the toddler holding hands with in the picture in the white people's house in "Blak Power"?

3. What does Darling describe her own fortune cookie saying in "Country-Game"?

4. Who had offered to take Darling's family across the border when all of the troubles began, according to Darling's father in "Shhhh"?

5. What is the name of the cemetery at the edge of Paradise?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the guard described that the children encounter in "Blak Power"?

2. What is the symbolic significance of the Lamborghini that appears in the novel?

3. Why does Mother of Bones count her money every morning? Why does she not use the money?

4. How old is the protagonist when the novel begins? What is her family like?

5. How is the setting of Paradise described? How many people live in this village?

6. How does MotherLove respond when she encounters Darling and her friends in "We Need New Names"?

7. What does Prophet Revelations Bitchington Mborro require to heal Darling's father?

8. How does the narrative style change in “How They Appeared"?

9. What do the children observe at the overseer's tent when they arrive in “Country-Game”?

10. What are the perceptions of the coming election in "Real Change"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the motifs of religion, spirituality, and superstition in the novel. How would you compare the religious beliefs of Mother of Bones to those of Aunt Fostalina or Darling? What are examples in the text of rituals performed for superstitious reasons?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the narrative style of We Need New Names. From whose perspective is the story related? How does the narrative style transition in the different chapters? Which chapters step away from the main narrative and why?

Essay Topic 3

What events led to Darling's family living in a shack in Paradise? What was their home like before? How does Darling recall the events surrounding losing her childhood home?

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