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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. Why does Sidi not want to spend any time alone with Baroka?
2. What job does Baroka give to his favorite wife?
3. What is the setting for the opening of "Noon"?
4. Whom does Sidi credit with having taught her to value herself and think critically about her choices?
5. Near the end of "Noon," why does Baroka start talking about winning a log-tossing match and hunting leopards?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain how Baroka diverted the railroad, and why.
2. When Sadiku conveys Sidi's refusal to Baroka, what is his first reaction, and what changes his feelings?
3. When Lakunle tells the story of Baroka's corruption, what conflicting emotions does he display?
4. Describe Baroka's bedroom.
5. What is Sidi's reasoning for turning down the proposal that Baroka sends to her through Sadiku?
6. What evidence is there in "Noon" that there might be genuine affection between Baroka and Sadiku?
7. When, in the beginning of "Noon," Lakunle compares Sidi to women in the Bible, what message is he trying to send, and what is Sidi's response?
8. What argument does Sadiku present to Sidi for marrying Baroka?
9. When the scene in "Noon" shifts to Baroka's bedroom, what is his favorite wife doing, and how does she use this task to communicate her feelings?
10. When Sidi says, "The stranger took my beauty/and placed it in my hands" (20), what claim is she making for the power of the photographs?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay in which you examine what The Lion and the Jewel is saying about the responsibilities of those in positions of authority. Who shows responsibility, and who fails to take responsibility seriously enough? What are the consequences? Be sure to offer textual support for your claims.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
The village schoolmaster claims that he has "scientific" evidence that women are the intellectual inferiors of men. Faulty science has been used in this way to legitimize discrimination for centuries. Choose a kind of discrimination--that based on sex, gender, appearance, cultural background, religion, or any other kind--and write an essay about how pseudoscience has been used to support bigotry in this area. Credit all sources in MLA format.
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