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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 Oko's family feel about Esi?

2. What does Oko think Esi has not lost?

3. What does Oko buy thinking it will be good for Esi and Ogyaanowa?

4. Who is Musa Kondey?

5. What does Oko still blame himself for over a year after Esi leaves him?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Who is Opokuya and what is her relationship to Esi?

5. What is Ali's attitude towards Esi before she is divorced?

6. How do Ali and Fusena meet and eventually marry?

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

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

9. What does Esi say is the cause of the failure of her marriage?

10. What does the narrator say about Ali Kondey at the opening of this chapter.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the following:

1. What do you think are the characteristics of a successful novel?

2. Analyze and discuss Changes: A Love Story based upon the criteria you decide upon in #1 and judge if Changes: A Love Story is a successful novel. Explain your rationale with specific examples.

3. Do you think the fact that Changes: A Love Story is a feminist novel with a specific agenda changes the criteria upon which its success should be judged? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

Titles can often say much about a story. Discuss the following:

1. Do you think there is something ironic about the title Changes: A Love Story? Why or why not. Discuss fully.

2. Who changes and why? Are the changes positive? Do they demonstrate a new understanding or wisdom?

3. Is it likely that Ali would never marry a second wife if he knew the problems it would entail? Do you think he would take on a third wife? Does he change?

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Essay Topic 3

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.

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