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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 roofs the bunker Odenigbo and others in the neighborhood build?

2. For which of the following does Olanna note Odenigbo works?

3. Which of the following does Ugwu associate with witchcraft?

4. Which of the following does Olanna see take a chick?

5. The phrase “the vulnerabilities he wore so openly knotted as his throat like a tie” (304) offers an example of which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

1. What reason is given for many African countries refusing to recognize or support Biafra?

2. What reasons does Ugwu give for wanting to see an Indian film after the festival with Richard?

3. What event spurs Olanna to move back in with Odenigbo?

4. What advice does Ifeka give Olanna after Odenigbo’s infidelity?

5. What lures Ugwu outside the first time a conscription attempt is made on him?

6. What reasons does Olanna note for her anger at Odenigbo for his infidelity?

7. Why does Olanna note the upstairs living room in her parents’ house is called the ladies’ parlor?

8. What reasons does Madu give for wanting Richard to document conditions in Biafra?

9. What reason is given for the lack of supplies at the relief center?

10. What reasoning is given for resisting Ugwu as a teacher?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Consider Olanna’s comment that “love comes first and the reasons follow” (286). Is the comment accurate? What in Half of A Yellow Sun and in experience suggest that it is or is not? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Of the divisions of Half of A Yellow Sun present in its published edition (this guide breaks the long fourth part), the longest is Part 4: The Late Sixties; the shortest is Part 3: The Early Sixties. Does the disparity in length reflect a disparity in narrative importance? How or how not?

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