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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 falls out of a tree?

2. What does Mai see when she wakes up the day after the mission is completed?

3. Why is Sylvia upset about her house?

4. Who is Joseph?

5. Who stays above the dam and rocks the rope?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mai see the morning after the mission?

2. When did Jacob lose his mother?

3. Who in Naila's family dies?

4. What does Agnes ask Joseph to help her find?

5. What happens when Thandi meets Agnes Banda?

6. What does the General want from Jacob?

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

8. What does Naila want to do to the STOP signs in Lusaka?

9. Who dies at Matha's house?

10. What does Naila do in the dam?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay in which you examine the concept of disease in the novel. What kinds of diseases, medical or otherwise, plague the characters in the novel? How so? Are they spread or inherited across generations How are these illnesses rectified or triggered? Use evidence from the text to explain your thoughts.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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