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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 happens to Sahel shortly after Malabo disappears?

2. What does Bongo ask the Spirit for every morning?

3. How many people does Thula's father tell her live in America, approximately?

4. Who raised Bongo's father?

5. Who does Sahel remember singing in the bath?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did many people try to dissuade Malabo from traveling to the capital to appeal to Pexton?

2. What does The Sick One eventually tell the Kosawans in Part II?

3. What does Bongo think of his brother Malabo?

4. What happens to Juba in Part I?

5. What does Bongo think when he first meets Austin?

6. How does Bongo remember Thula's birth and its aftermath?

7. What does Bongo ask the Spirit for every morning?

8. What tragedy has struck Thula's family in her childhood?

9. Why are the Kosawans so upset with Pexton in Part I?

10. What happens to Malabo and the others when they go to the capital to meet with Pexton?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What sequence of plot events does Konga's taking the Pexton driver's key in Part I start off? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

What happens in Kosawa after Austin, the American journalist, really does write Kosawa's story from the villagers' perspective? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

What does Juba find out, decades later, about "The Leader" from Pexton who the Kosawans kidnapped, and how does this knowledge affect Juba's perspective about the suffering that Pexton brought to both Kosawa and others?

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