Bite+of+Mango

The Bite of the Mango by Mariatu Kamara with Susan McClelland

1. What was the name of the man who raped Mariatu? Answer - p. 69 Salieu

2. Since it is common in Sierra Leone for children in rural areas to be raised by other than their birth parents, What were the names of Mariatu's aunt and uncle,who raised her? Answer - p. 13 Marie and Alie

3. What was the name of the village Mariatu lived in Sierra Leone? Answer - p. 13 Magborou

4. How did the rebels maim Mariatu? Answer - p. 40 they chopped off her hands

5. What caused Maritau's cousin Ibrahim's body to convulse and make his eyes get glassy and his mouth to froth? Answer- Ibrahim had a disease called epilepsy

6. Where did Mariatu want to move? Answer -Canada

7. What was the intiation that girls in Sierra Leone was required to do before marriage? Answer- Bondo- genital mutilation(pg 87)

8. What was the name of Mariatu's baby? Answer- Abdul (pg 95)

9. What was the name of the boy that Mariatu wanted to marry? Answer- Musa (pg 91)

10. How did Mariatu think Abdul died? answer - Mariatu thought it was her fault for not loving him enough.

11. What happened to Mariatu's cousin? Answer- he was living in a house built by an organization and begging in the city of freetown.

12. What 3 languages are spoken in Sierra Leone? Answer: (pg.136) Krio, Mende, and Temne

13. What country did Mariatu **first** go when she left Freetown? Answer: (pg.132) England

14. What is Mariatu good at doing when she joins the Theater Troup? Answer: (pg.113) Dancing

15. What were the "neices" names when Mariatu was living with Kadi and Abou in Toronto, Canada? Answer: (pg.177) Haja, Suad, and Fanta

16. What is the ECOMOG and what does it stand for? Answer: (pg. 57) It was a military operation deployed in Sierra Leone to help end the war. It stands for "Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group

17. What is Mariatu's mothers name? Answer: (pg.17) Aminatu

18. What are some noticeable problems in Sierra Leone? Answers: (pg.213)
 * War from 1991 to 2002
 * Rebels destroyed villages and raped, maimed, and/or murdered many Africans
 * very poor
 * scarcity of food
 * life expectancy is only 40 years
 * barely no education
 * large scale unemployment
 * women are subjected to sexual, emotional, and physical abuse
 * many girls endure rape at the hands of older men and often are forced into early marriages