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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 many trips per day, on average, did Jonathan make in his taxi?

2. How many human heads are safe in Jonathan's family?

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

4. What is the equivalent Nigerian currency amount for the Boafran pounds paid to the carpenter?

5. How long is a fortnight?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the Iwegbu family behavior show their ability to adapt and survive?

3. Why was Jonathan suspicious of the soldier that commanded use of his bicycle?

4. What is the general atmosphere after the war?

5. What has happened to Jonathan's town because of the civil war?

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

7. What does Jonathan do after acquiring building materials?

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

9. What does Jonathan's home mean to him and his family?

10. What does Jonathan realize after the soldier tries to commandeer his bicycle?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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

Achebe fictionalized what happened in civil war torn Nigeria after the late 1960s. He has posited that it is the African writer's duty to accurately tell the stories of his people. How is this belief reflected in Civil Peace?

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