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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. In regards to time, how should the play be performed?
2. The author's note primarily serves to inform all except which of the following?
3. What do the women of the market threaten to remove from Amusa if he refuses to leave?
4. "Death and the King's Horseman" is a story of ____________________ rather than British colonization.
5. What are Jane and Pilkings wearing at the beginning of Act 1, Scene 2?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Elesin's reaction when Jane attempts to plead with him in the last scene of the play.
2. What is the job of the praise-singer?
3. How does Olunde react when he finally sees his father, alive?
4. How is the scene with Amusa in the market a sign that the British assimilation has failed?
5. Who is Amusa and what is his role?
6. Where does Elesin choose to make his transition? Why does he choose this place?
7. How are Pilkings and Elesin alike?
8. What does Amusa's note say in the dance of Act 1, Scene 4? Why does Amusa write the note?
9. In Act 1, Scene 1 the praise-singer talks to Elesin about how the Yoruban people have not betrayed their culture, even in the midst of the British occupation. What does the praise-singer claim is the only way the Yoruban people will fail?
10. What does Joseph's confusion of the drums symbolize in regard to Elesin's situation?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What does anti-colonialism have to do with the driving forces of the play? How do Soyinka's own feelings of anti-colonialism come to the surface with his writing of "Death and the King's horseman"?
Essay Topic 2
What does morality have to do with the decision making process of Pilkings? Explain your reasoning using in-text citations.
Essay Topic 3
What significance does the Marketplace hold for the story? What significance does the Marketplace hold for Elesin Oba in particular? Explain.
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