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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. What does Ugwu report is taken from his uncle in an attempt to work bad medicine against him?
2. Which of the following reportedly enables the loss of a baby?
3. Which of the following countries reportedly recognizes Biafra in response to starvation therein?
4. Which of the following does Ugwu associate with witchcraft?
5. The comment that “Everything he did for the rest of the day was colored with a bitter dye” (372) offers an example of which of the following?
Short Essay Questions
1. What reason is given for the lack of supplies at the relief center?
2. What reasons does Olanna posit that Odenigbo is not frightened by how little they have?
3. What reasoning does the priest Olanna visits give her for forgiving Odenigbo?
4. What reason is given for many African countries refusing to recognize or support Biafra?
5. Why does Olanna note the upstairs living room in her parents’ house is called the ladies’ parlor?
6. For what in her past does Olanna grieve?
7. What event spurs Olanna to move back in with Odenigbo?
8. What reason does Ezeka give for not living in the Government Reserved Area (427)?
9. What reasons does Ugwu give for wanting to see an Indian film after the festival with Richard?
10. For what does Olanna upbraid her father at her mother’s request?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Kainene remarks that “There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable” (435). What is meant by the remark? What in Half of A Yellow Sun supports it, and how does it do so?
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
Explicate the often-repeated phrase “May another do for you.”
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