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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 does Okeoma compare Olanna?
2. Which of the following journals does Ugwu note having attempted to read?
3. Which of the following reportedly enables the loss of a baby?
4. In which of the following does Kainene buy a house?
5. Which of the following makes of car does Ezeka drive?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Olanna describe Muokelu?
2. What event spurs Olanna to move back in with Odenigbo?
3. For what does Olanna upbraid her father at her mother’s request?
4. What lures Ugwu outside the first time a conscription attempt is made on him?
5. What, ultimately, is the obunigwe?
6. What reasons does Ugwu note for suspecting foul play from Odenigbo’s mother?
7. What reasons does Ugwu give for wanting to see an Indian film after the festival with Richard?
8. What reasoning does the priest Olanna visits give her for forgiving Odenigbo?
9. What reasons does Ugwu note for thinking Muokelu is a poor teacher?
10. Why does Olanna note the upstairs living room in her parents’ house is called the ladies’ parlor?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Repeatedly in Half of A Yellow Sun, Ugwu makes particular note of what he serves to whom at dinner and drinks. For one such character, explain the significance of the meal and drink service; that is, what does it indicate about that character that Ugwu focuses on the details of the table for him or her, and how does the text support the indication?
Essay Topic 2
Consider Kainene’s comment that “it’s wrong of [a person] to think that love leaves room for nothing else. It’s possible to love something and still condescend to it” (145). Is the comment correct? What in the novel and in experience indicate that it is or is not? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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