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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. To which of the following levels of schooling had Ugwu attained before entering Odenigbo’s service?

2. About which of the following does Richard’s servant rebuke Kainene’s?

3. Which of the following descriptions does Adebayo apply to Olanna?

4. Which of the following does Special Julius deliver?

5. The phrase “a new country, which would be named after the bay, the Bight of Biafra” (198) offers an example of which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Richard initially react to the attack on the airport as he travels back from London?

2. Why does Richard note wanting Kainene to accompany him to Martin’s wedding in London?

3. What does Olanna report to Odenigbo upon her return to Nsukka after the second coup?

4. What are the chants offered at the seminar in Nsukka at which Ojukwu appears and speaks?

5. How are Olanna’s eyes depicted as she flees back to Nsukka after the second coup?

6. What reason does Ugwu voice for not killing a gecko?

7. How does Richard disappoint the family of the slain customs officer he visits?

8. How do Olanna’s parents report planning to flee Biafra?

9. What reasons does Olanna give for preferring train travel to plane travel?

10. How does Madu report having escaped the second coup?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explicate the often-repeated phrase “May another do for you.”

Essay Topic 2

To what extent does the epigraph from Achebe at the beginning of Half of A Yellow Sun suggest the theme of the book? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Explain the significance of Ugwu coming across a copy of The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave: Written by Himself while conscripted.

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