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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 important piece of information does Sadiku give Sidi as a reason to marry Baroka?

2. In the opening of "Noon," what is Sidi doing while Sadiku tries to talk to her?

3. While Lakunle is telling his story about Baroka's corruption, what does Sidi do?

4. What is Sadiku's response to Sidi's refusal of Baroka's proposal?

5. Whom does Sidi credit with having taught her to value herself and think critically about her choices?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Baroka's bedroom.

2. When Sadiku conveys Sidi's refusal to Baroka, what is his first reaction, and what changes his feelings?

3. What evidence is there in "Noon" that there might be genuine affection between Baroka and Sadiku?

4. 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?

5. 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?

6. What argument does Sadiku present to Sidi for marrying Baroka?

7. What is Sidi's reasoning for turning down the proposal that Baroka sends to her through Sadiku?

8. Explain how Baroka diverted the railroad, and why.

9. 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?

10. When Lakunle tells the story of Baroka's corruption, what conflicting emotions does he display?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

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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