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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. How many girls does Chief Nanga promise Odili?

2. Who from Anata offers to join Odili's campaign?

3. Why will Odili not retrieve Elsie in front of Chief Nanga?

4. What animals, after leaving the Odo house, ruin Odili's plan involving Edna?

5. With whom does the PAP reveal that the Minister of Foreign Trade has been illegitimately making a profit?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Odili initially interpret Chief Nanga's order to move Elsie's bags into his absent wife's room?

2. What is the method of problem solving that Odili unconsciously employs while reconsidering his humiliation that occurred at the house of Chief Nanga?

3. What is the confusion about why Couple is put in jail?

4. What is significant about Odili and Edna's bicycle crash?

5. Why is Couple's heckling of Maxwell effective?

6. What sort of reception does Odili's political campaign receive in Anata?

7. What is the general tone of Mrs. Nanga in her first conversation with Odili's while in Anata, and why is that the tone?

8. Describe the situation with Chief Nanga and the editor of the Daily Matchet, including its significance.

9. How does Odili interpret Edna's letter?

10. What is suggested by the revelation that a junior member of Parliament is also a founding member of the CPC?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

As the chief protagonist and narrator of the story, Odili undergoes dramatic changes throughout the narrative, but as he is the one describing them, he does not explicitly state them. Trace the outline of Odili's character development and changes, being sure to answer the following questions:

1) In what regard does Odili primarily change?

2) In what ways does Odili seem to change, but ONLY seem?

3) What other characters and events have the biggest influence on Odili's changes?

Essay Topic 3

Present an analysis of Chief Nanga. Discuss his rise to power, his personalit, and his interactions with other characters. How does he treat others? How does he maintain his political position until the coup? Be sure to contrast the opinions of the educated and the uneducated regarding Chief Nanga.

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