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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. Who do the elders place under what is effectively house arrest?

2. What do the villagers call the person in charge from the oil company who visits the village?

3. What is the group that eventually does get money from Pexton for Kosawa?

4. Who tries to dissuade Bongo and the others from going to Bezam?

5. Who is Thula's teacher?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Konga do that begins to change everything for Kosawa in Part I?

2. What has broken Bongo's heart in Part II?

3. What is the relationship between the Pexton laborers and the villagers?

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

5. Why do people always avoid touching Konga?

6. How do the villagers feel about Woja Beki?

7. Why does The Sick One want to go home so badly?

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

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

10. What was Big Papa like?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the relationship between the government - particularly His Excellency - and Pexton? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

How do Pexton's actions, over the course of generations, successfully and fully alienate Kosawans from their own land and traditions? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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