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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 long does Khalifa work for the Gujarati banker brothers?

2. When Ilyas goes to his home village, what is the name of the man who gives him a place to sleep on his journey?

3. How many rooms are in the upstiar block on the right-hand side of the boma in Chapter 5?

4. How old is Khalifa when he is sent to a private tutor to learn mathematics, bookkeeping, and elementary English vocabulary?

5. How many people die of starvation during the Maji Maji uprising?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Hamza's first evening like as askari?

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

3. How do Khalifa's parents die?

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

5. In Chapter 5 how does the schutztruppe fight on?

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

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

8. How do Hamza and the other recruits spend their afternoons?

9. Who is Qassim?

10. What was Khalifa's first job?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The climax in a novel is either the highest point of tension or a turning point in a novel. What is the climax of Afterlives and why is that incident the climax?

Essay Topic 2

Tone conveys an author’s attitude toward a topic. What are some techniques an author uses to convey tone? How might tone influence the reader and the reader’s attitude toward a subject? What is the overall tone of Afterlives?

Essay Topic 3

Setting is the place and time where a narrative takes place. Where and when does Afterlives take place? How does the setting evoke feelings or set the mood in the book?

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