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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 is Isa's mother?

2. Who is Grace?

3. Who marries Balaji?

4. Who is Isa'a father?

5. Why does Adriana take her child to live at Villa Serra?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Isabella marry?

2. Why does Agnes stop playing tennis for a while?

3. Why does Agnes get kicked out of the Reds?

4. Why does Isabella reluctant to have more children after the first one?

5. What does Matha realize after she gives birth?

6. Who is Grace?

7. Who is Adrianna, and what does she do?

8. Who finds Jacob and his friends when their mothers worry that they are missing?

9. Why does Edward Mukuka Nkoloso get sent to prison?

10. What does Godfrey want to do with his life?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay in which you explain the concept of colonialism in the novel. How is colonialism addressed within the text? Which characters make points of addressing it, and in what way? Use evidence from the text to explain your thoughts.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay in which you examine the concept of land/land ownership in the novel, particularly as it pertains to settler colonialism in Africa throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In what ways does this issue present itself in the novel, and how does the novel's characters interact with or interrogate this concept? Use evidence from the text to explain your thoughts.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay in which you examine the significance of the The Virus and the vaccine. What political, cultural, or socioeconomical thinking is associated with these topics throughout the novel? In what ways are they discussed, and by whom? Who is affected by them, and why? Use evidence from the text to explain your thoughts.

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