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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 the newspaperman suggest to Bongo about travel?
2. Who is one of the respected village elders?
3. Who was the first to suggest that it might be the water that was killing and making villagers sick?
4. What do people call Thula's grandfather?
5. What is the capital city of the country?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Bongo remember Thula's birth and its aftermath?
2. What does Konga do that begins to change everything for Kosawa in Part I?
3. Why does The Sick One want to go home so badly?
4. How do the villagers feel about Woja Beki?
5. What is "the Spirit" to Kosawans?
6. What do the Kosawans ask the three Pexton leaders for in Part II?
7. What does Austin suggest to Bongo and the others that complicates things for Bongo?
8. Why are the Kosawans so upset with Pexton in Part I?
9. What does Bongo think of his brother Malabo?
10. What has broken Bongo's heart in Part II?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the relationship between Thula and "The Five"? Why do Thula's former age-mates and childhood friends and classmates have so much respect and even reverence for her? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 2
How do the villagers view Woja Beki in Part I, and how does both their perception of Woja Beki and Woja Beki's character change over the course of the novel? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 3
At the end of the novel, what do you think Mbue wants the reader to take away from the generations-long struggle Kosawa has waged against Pexton? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
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