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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. What goes deep to Jonathan's heart?

2. What did Jonathan's bicycle need when he got it back?

3. Where did Jonathan sell palm wine?

4. What did Jonathan turn in to be able to get this award payment.

5. What did the people call the award or payment?

Short Essay Questions

1. Besides his thankfulness of his present survival, how does Jonathan feel about the future for him and his family?

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

3. How does Jonathan acquire building materials?

4. How do the Iwegbu family make money after moving back home?

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

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

7. Where did the money that Jonathan used to bribe the soldier come from?

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

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

10. What could Jonathan's home and the destroyed concrete edifice symbolize about how the civil war impacted Nigeria and Biafra?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the symbolism of the Iwegbu home in Enugu, the Coal Corporation office, and the bicycle.

Essay Topic 3

What is "egg-rasher?" What does it signify to those receiving it? to Jonathan? to the government issuing it?

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