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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. Who begins banging on Esi's door?

2. What does Oko want to do after Kubi arrives?

3. What does Ali tell Esi is the reason he has to go by his office nightly?

4. Why is Opokuya happy for Esi?

5. What does Opokuya ask of Esi?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Esi find out about Ali's secretary and what does she decide to do?

2. For what does Ali apologize to his people and how does he rationalize his actions?

3. What is Esi's mother's hesitation about Esi marrying Ali and what does Esi think about this?

4. Why is Opokuya feeling sorry for herself and what can she do about it?

5. Why would it have been different if Oko had taken a second wife?

6. What indication is there that Ali and Esi are starting to have difficulties in their relationship in Chapter 10?

7. Describe Esi's conversation with Opokuya three months after ending her marriage with Ali.

8. How does Esi finally make a break with Ali near the end of their third year of marriage?

9. What does Esi feel after leaving Opokuya's home?

10. What happens after the trip to Bamako?

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

Characters are an integral and important part of almost all novels. Discuss one of the following in relation to Changes: A Love Story:

1. Compare/contrast the characters of Esi and Opokuya. How are they similar? How are they different? Is there a flaw in each of their personalities? Is either woman's beliefs more worthy than the other? Be specific and give examples.

2. Compare/contrast the characters of Oko and Ali. How are they similar? How do they seem different? Which do you like more? Why? Which one seems more of a well-rounded character?

3. Thoroughly analyze how three of the secondary characters help drive the plot and what their contribution is to the storyline. Are any of the secondary characters unnecessary? Indispensable? Which of the secondary characters are likable? Which are either unlikable or even despicable? Be specific and give examples.

Essay Topic 3

Changes: A Love Story could be said to be a "bildungsroman" of Esi. Discuss the following:

1. Define the concepts "bildungsroman" and "coming of age."

2. Thoroughly trace and analyze Changes: A Love Story as a bildungsroman of Esi. Give specific examples. What does Esi learn? How has she changed? Is the change for the better?

3. Thoroughly trace and analyze Changes: A Love Story as a feminist story. Give specific examples. What does Eis learn? What does Opokuya learn? What would feminist say about Esi's actions? Opokuya's actions? Ali's actions? Oko's actions?

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