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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. In Chapter 4, how many girls does Bi Habiba teach in her home before Afiya is sent to learn from her?

3. How long after Khalifa returns home and finds his father ill does his father die?

4. In Chapter 4, how old is Afiya when she gets her own room for the first time?

5. In Chapter 5, where were the people from who killed the German missionaries?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is Qassim?

3. How was Khalifa educated?

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

5. How do the Germans end the Maji Maji uprising?

6. What is Afiya's life like when Ilyas takes her to the city?

7. In Chapter 5, what duties does Hamza perform as the Oberleutnant's servant before seven in the morning?

8. What was Khalifa's first job?

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

10. What does Hamza learn from the sick report he collects from the medical officer and takes to the Oberleutnant?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The schutztruppe is the German colonial army. How are African recruits treated in the schutztruppe? How are the schutztruppe cruel to African recruits and native peoples?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

In Afterlives, some characters are more thoroughly described than others. Who are some characters that are merely named in passing or have a minor role in the novel? What is the importance of these flat characters to the storyline? In what way do these characters make the main characters more colorful or interesting? When there is conflict, what type of role do these flat characters play?

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