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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 stay with his tutor?

2. Where does Hamza notice that the Oberleutnant has scars in Chapter 5?

3. What type of business does Nassor ask his father to finance when he finishes school?

4. In Chapter 3, how long do the recruits train before they meet the German subaltern Feldwebel Walther?

5. When Ilays's mother died, how old was her baby?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Who is Qassim?

5. How was Khalifa educated?

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

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

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

9. What was Khalifa's first job?

10. How did Amur Biashara do his business, and how did his way of doing business fail him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

As Afiya matures, her world becomes smaller and there are more rules and regulations she has to follow. How and why does Afiya’s world become smaller as she matures? What does her life as a young woman reveal about gender roles in East Africa?

Essay Topic 3

The British establish a blockade after they fail to take the port of Tanga. Why do the British establish a blockade and what are the effects of the blockade?

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