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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 does Winston offer to help Jende in Chapter 37?

2. Why does Jende bring Clark to the same hotel over and over?

3. What does Jende promise Neni about their life in Cameroon?

4. Who does Cindy confide in in Chapter 27?

5. What does Clark tell Jende in Chapter 38?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Clark make frequent visits to the Chelsea Hotel?

2. What does Liomi get for Christmas?

3. How does Neni blackmail Cindy?

4. What news does Jende receive in Chapter 35?

5. How does Jende's dream in Chapter 26 foreshadow the collapse of Lehman Brothers?

6. Why does Clark want Jende to come up to his office in Chapter 38?

7. What are Neni and Winston's reactions to Cindy's request for Jende to record all of Clark's action?

8. How does Jende's life change after he is fired?

9. Why was Jende put in jail in Limbe?

10. What does Clark say when Jende tells him that Cindy wants him to record all of Clark's actions?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does gender inequality impact the lives of the women in the text?

Essay Topic 2

MBue is able to use New York City as a character in this text. What does New York City symbolize to the characters of the novel? How does this change over the course of the text and why?

Essay Topic 3

How does Jende change over the course of the novel? What events impact these changes?

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