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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 Lakunle say is inappropriate about the way Sidi is dressed?

2. When Lakunle talks about machines that will someday help women with their work, what is Sidi's reply?

3. Why is Baroka jealous of Sidi?

4. What evidence does Sidi give that women are not the "weaker sex" (4)?

5. Why does Sidi have Lakunle play the "lost Traveller" in their dance?

Short Essay Questions

1. When the play opens, what is the understanding between Sidi and Lakunle regarding marriage?

2. What are the qualities that Lakunle thinks of as "civilized"?

3. Describe the setting in which the play opens.

4. What happens with Lakunle when Baroka interrupts the dance?

5. What is the contradiction in Lakunle's view of women?

6. What is the "dance of the lost Traveller," and who plays the Traveller?

7. How did the "lost Traveller" come to be in the village?

8. What does Lakunle think of Baroka?

9. How does Sidi feel about Lakunle's modern ideas?

10. What response does Baroka have to the magazine featuring pictures of the village?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay explaining how Soyinka uses both language and action to create comic effects in The Lion and the Jewel. Be sure to offer textual support for your claims.

Essay Topic 2

Write an analysis of Sadiku's character. How does the viewer's understanding of her change from "Noon" to "Night"? Is she a good person in a difficult situation or just a terrible human being? Be sure to support your claims with evidence from the text.

Essay Topic 3

Choose a time in the history of your own country in which the forces of modernization struggled with the forces of tradition over a specific social or technological change. Write about this change, explain the arguments on both sides, and explain how the struggle was similar to and different from the struggle in The Lion and the Jewel. Be sure to cite your sources in MLA format.

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