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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 did people feel about paying Jonathan the fare?

2. What did Jonathan find still standing in his neighborhood?

3. What character does the story lead with?

4. What does Jonathan count himself to be?

5. Who had built what had now become a "mountain of rubble?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who survives with Jonathan and what does he consider this to be?

2. Why do the customers use Jonathan's service?

3. What significance is the Coal Corporation to Jonathan and others?

4. What doesJonathan find miraculous upon his return to Enugu?

5. How has the value of the Biafran pound changed from Paragraph 2 to Paragraph 3?

6. Would Jonathan be considered an entrepreneur? Why or why not?

7. In Paragraph 2, how did Maria get extra food for the family?

8. Why is "egg-rasher" being issued?

9. What does the greeting "happy survival" signify?

10. Is Jonathan's bicycle important to him? Why or why not?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What do faith, miracles, and God have to do with the development of Jonathan's character and the story?

Essay Topic 2

Explain how this story deals with the presence of an unstable government and how this affects the people in the story.

Essay Topic 3

Jonathan's neighbors do not come to his aid against the thieves in the pre-dawn hours yet they are at his home at first light, watching. Why is Jonathan so accepting of his neighbors not coming to help against the thieves? What do his neighbors find him doing?

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