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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. After the muadhin's call to afternoon prayer, how long does Khalifa return to work in Chapter 4?

2. About how much older are Issa and Zawadi than Afiya?

3. When the askari subdued the disobedient Wachagga chiefs Rindi and his son, Meli, how many other chiefs were hanged?

4. How many officers die on the retreat from Rufiji in Chapter 5?

5. What type of farm did Ilyas live and work on for the German who sent him to school?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Afiya spend the first few months she is with Khalifa and Asha?

2. In Chapter 5, how is Hamza under the Oberleutnant's protection?

3. How does Ilyas come to work at the sisal estate?

4. What does Ilyas learn about his family when he returns to his village?

5. Who does Khalifa marry and how does he come to marry?

6. What instructions are the recruits given after they have a medical exam?

7. When and where do the British make a landing and how does their landing end in Chapter 5?

8. When Nassor Biashara moves Khalifa to the warehouse and lowers his salary, what does Khalifa do?

9. Why does Afiya return to her village and then return again to the city?

10. What do Hamza and the other recruits learn in their training sessions with German subaltern Feldwebel Walther?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Hamza and Khalifa meet when Nassor sends Hamza to work at the warehouse. How does Khalifa treat Hamza at first? How and why does their relationship change?

Essay Topic 2

In much of Afterlives, East Africa is a German colony. What is the political situation when the Germans are in charge of East Africa? How do they secure their power? What is life like for the Africans when the Germans are in power? What is revealed about colonialism through the actions of the Germans and the lives of the Africans?

Essay Topic 3

The last weeks of the war are a nightmare. Why do the carriers and askari desert?

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