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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. Where does the narrator die?

2. Who is Loveness?

3. What happens after Agnes is kicked out of a club?

4. Who marries Balaji?

5. Who finds Sylvia?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Adrianna take Sibilla to live?

2. Why is Ronald gone from Africa for five years while Agnes is there?

3. Who was Matha's schoolteacher?

4. What does Matha realize after she gives birth?

5. Who does Sibilla run away with?

6. Who does Isabella marry?

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

8. Who is Grace?

9. Who is Loveness?

10. What business does Isabella start with her children?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay in which you examine inter-generational trauma in the novel. What is inter-generational trauma, and what characters in the novel feel its effects the most? What traumas are inherited throughout generations, and by whom? What are these traumas? How do they impact these characters? 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 physical struggles that come with being a woman as they are presented in the novel. Which women are hindered somehow by some kind of physical or medical ailment, and how does this hindrance affect their lives and understandings of themselves as people? Use evidence from the text to explain your thoughts.

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