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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 supplies does Olanna offer to Alice?

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

3. How long does Olanna note it took Odenigbo and others in the neighborhood to dig out a bunker?

4. In which of the following does Richard report meeting Ojukwu?

5. From which of the following does Muokelu hail?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Richard confess his perfidy to Kainene?

3. What reasoning does the priest Olanna visits give her for forgiving Odenigbo?

4. What reasons does Ugwu give for disliking the relief food?

5. What are Olanna’s initial clues about Odenigbo’s infidelity to her?

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

7. What reason does Ezeka give for not living in the Government Reserved Area (427)?

8. What reasons does Ugwu note for his soured opinion towards Eberichi?

9. What, ultimately, is the obunigwe?

10. What reasons does Ugwu note for suspecting foul play from Odenigbo’s mother?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explicate the irony of the heavyset reporter Charles saying, “I wish I could do more,” while eating from a candy bar (464).

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

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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