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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 gets into a harness?

2. Why does Lee go to a salon often?

3. Who draws Jacob a diagram of an engine?

4. What does Jacob invent?

5. What was the point of Naila's mission?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Thandi discover living in one of Lee's houses?

2. What does Naila do in the dam?

3. What does Thandi's husband spend the first few years of the new millenium doing?

4. Where do Jacob, Naila, and Joseph spend most of their nights together?

5. Who falls out of a tree at the end of the chapter "Thandiwe"?

6. Who teaches Jacob to read?

7. Who helps Naila and the boys carry out a secret mission?

8. What happens when Thandi meets Agnes Banda?

9. What happens to the dam in the end?

10. Who dies at Matha's house?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay in which you examine the significance of hair in the novel. Why is hair important for several characters, and across several generations? What function does hair serve in the novel, narratively and figuratively? Use evidence from the text to explain your thoughts.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay in which you examine the concept of Beads in the novel. What are Beads, and what do they do? Why does everyone in Zambia have one? What function do they serve? In what ways do they both hinder and benefit their owners? Use evidence from the text to explain your thoughts.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay in which you examine racism and race relations in the novel, particularly as they pertain to the ongoing conflicts between native Zambians and white ex-pats throughout the novel. Use evidence from the text to explain your thoughts.

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