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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. Which of the following foods has Harrison cooked when Richard confesses his perfidy to Kainene?
2. Which of the following nations is reported to recognize an independent Biafra?
3. About which of the following does Richard write?
4. Which of the following is the name of the Swedish pilot with whom Richard speaks?
5. Which of the following countries reportedly recognizes Biafra in response to starvation therein?
Short Essay Questions
1. What reasons does Ugwu note for suspecting foul play from Odenigbo’s mother?
2. What lures Ugwu outside the first time a conscription attempt is made on him?
3. What reason does Ezeka give for not living in the Government Reserved Area (427)?
4. How does Muokelu apologize to Olanna after commenting aspersively on Kainene?
5. For what in her past does Olanna grieve?
6. Why does Olanna note the upstairs living room in her parents’ house is called the ladies’ parlor?
7. What reasons does Olanna note for her anger at Odenigbo for his infidelity?
8. What is Kainene’s reaction to Richard’s determination to attend a memorial for Winston Churchill’s death?
9. Why does Richard confess his perfidy to Kainene?
10. Why does Ugwu note he has been forbidden from going outside?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Consider Odenigbo’s apologies for infidelity in Chapter 20. How much credence should be lent them? What in Half of A Yellow Sun accounts for that amount of credence? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 2
Consider Richard’s attitudes toward being a writer expressed at the beginning of Chapter 3. What anxieties do they betray? How do they betray them?
Essay Topic 3
Consider Richard’s attitudes toward being a writer expressed at the beginning of Chapter 3. How do they shift throughout the novel? What effect do the shifts have? How are the shifts indicated? How do they generate their effects?
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