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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. For what does the narrator say Ali Kondey is an effective advertisement?

2. What does Esi tell the man she is doing?

3. Where do Ali and Fusena teach after graduation?

4. Where does Ali earn a Master's degree?

5. At whom is Esi angry?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Fusena feel when she becomes pregnant with her second child?

2. What does Esi say that makes Opokuya feel concern for Esi?

3. What does Oko think as he watches Esi dress?

4. How does Fusena end up in England with Ali?

5. How does Ali feel about his father and how is he different from his father?

6. Where does Ogyaanowa end up staying for the summer and then longer?

7. What does Opokuya realize as she is riding home with Kubi?

8. What are each person's reasons for wanting the car this particular morning?

9. What does Opokuya say about single women in Ghana?

10. How does Oko feel about the end of his marriage a year or so later?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Over the past several hundred years, many emigrants have moved to the United States seeking relief from oppressive governments or oppressive cultural mores. Discuss the following:

1. Why do you think Esi or few females from Ghana move away (besides economics).

2. Discuss some of the things that would drive you to leave your home country to move to a new country and different culture.

3. If there is nothing that would make you leave your home country, discuss what about your country makes you want to live there for your entire life.

4. If you lived in a strongly patriarchal country, would you want to move to a different country? Discuss in relation to Changes: A Love Story.

Essay Topic 2

Oftentimes, a novel is more of a character-driven plot rather than action driven, and oftentimes the other way. Some books seem to balance the two. Discuss the following:

1. What do you think it means to say that a plot is character driven? Action driven?

2. How do you think a plot differs if it is character driven versus action driven?

3. Which type of plot do you find more interesting? Why?

4. Do you think it is possible to have a plot where action and character development share equal time? Why or why not.

5. What type of plot do you think Changes: A Love Story is? Explain your response.

Essay Topic 3

Setting as far as place and time play an important role in Changes: A Love Story. Discuss the following:

1. Compare/contrast several aspects of the setting of that time (late 1900s) from how it would be today. Consider things such as cultural norms/expectations, technology, religion and medicine.

2. Do you think Changes: A Love Story would be different if it were set in the United States? Consider the cultural differences as you discuss the way the story would change is set in the United States.

3. Discuss some of the differences between the United States and Ghana, as far as the relationship between men and women and gender expectations. What are some similarities?

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