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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 Osita want to tell Kavita in Chapter Nine?

2. Who does Kavita think would have known what to do about Vivek?

3. Where is Juju's mother originally from?

4. What does Emezi compare this story to in Chapter One?

5. Where does Ekene want Osita to go to university in Chapter Seven?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Vivek ask of Osita in Part I that is quite unusual and unsettling?

2. What item of Vivek's is Osita desperate to find after his death?

3. How does Mary react to Kavita's anger over how her church treats Vivek in Part II?

4. Why are Chika and Kavita sick with grief from the day Vivek is born?

5. What illness does Osita realize Vivek suffers from in Part I?

6. What accounts for much of the tension between Kavita and Ekene in Part II?

7. Why is Vivek so angry with Kavita and Chika when he comes back from Mary's church in Part II?

8. Why does Osita apologize to Vivek in Part II?

9. Why are so many people concerned that Vivek is growing his hair long in Part II?

10. How would you describe Chika's relationship with his mother Ahunna?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do various characters in the book, including Kavita, Maja, Charles, Eloise, and Chika view infidelity in marriages? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

What is your understanding of some of the underlying reasons behind the routine and deadly violence in Vivek's home village in Nigeria, as Emezi explains it? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

Essay Topic 3

What seems to account for Vivek's spells or fugue states? How does Emezi explain, or, in contrast, leave ambiguous, the cause or causes of Vivek's health problems? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

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