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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. Who calls while Jean and Odili are making love?
2. What does Chief Nanga think of the president of the Writer's Society's dress?
3. What is the general feeling of the people toward Odili's father?
4. Chief Nanga says the standard education he received is worth more than what today?
5. From what country does the other black man among the foreigners in Chapter 5 come?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Odili's father treat his family?
2. Why is Mrs. Nanga concerned over her children losing their heritage?
3. What series of events leads up to Odili's disillusionment with the POP.?
4. What is significant about the languages spoken in the Nanga home?
5. How did Odili deal with his previous encounters with bucket latrines?
6. Why is Odili concerned when Chief Nanga voices his intention to go to the hospital with him?
7. On what does Odili focus during Chief Nanga's speech in Chapter 6?
8. Why is Peter merely working as Odili's houseboy?
9. How does Odili describe the way Jean acts toward Chief Nanga?
10. Why is Odili's father hated?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
A subtle theme in "A Man of the People" is the disparity in sexual equality throughout Nigerian society. How are women portrayed as less important throughout the story? How is this status quo challenged? What female character embodies resignation to this standard, and what character challenges it? How is this shown in the story?
Essay Topic 2
Alone of all the political characters in the story, Odili rejects every sort of political corruption. Explicate and analyze this severe contrast between the absolute idealism of Odili, the absolute corruption and self-interest of Chief Nanga, and the practical abuse of corrupt individuals by Maxwell. Who is the most morally persuasive of the characters, and why?
Essay Topic 3
During Maxwell's impressive but inefficacious speech, it is revealed that the people have a certain resignation as to the greater affairs of state. Analyze this resignation: how it came about, why it persists, and what implications it has for the country within the story.
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