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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. In “Cell One,” what occasion caused Nnamabia’s heart to turn, regarding his imprisonment?
2. In “On Monday of Last Week,” what has Josh been preparing for?
3. In “On Monday of Last Week,” how long did it take Tobechi to get his green card and send for Kamara?
4. In “Ghosts,” what were Professor Nwoye and the other faculty fleeing when they saw Ikenna?
5. In “On Monday of Last Week,” who is Maren?
Short Essay Questions
1. In “Ghosts,” what is the business Professor Nwoye has come to the university to see about?
2. In “Ghosts,” what has Ikenna been doing all these years since the 1967 war?
3. In “Cell One,” why was the narrator’s brother arrested?
4. In “Jumping Monkey Hill,” how does Edward’s wife Isabel get on Ujunwa’s wrong side?
5. In “On Monday of Last Week,” how does the narrator characterize Neil’s parenting?
6. In “On Monday of Last Week,” what changed for Kamara after last Monday?
7. In “Cell One,” what is the difference between Nsukka and Enugu?
8. In “Imitation,” what does Obiora feel about the children preserving Nigerian customs in America?
9. In “Cell One,” how did time in prison change Nnamabia?
10. In “Cell One,” how did Nnamabia’s time in prison change the narrator’s parents?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What role does the Nigerian Civil War play in Adichie’s short stories? What are the underlying social tensions that sparked the war, and how are they presented? How does Adichie represent the consequences and aftermath of the conflict?
Essay Topic 2
How do the titles relate to the stories? Choose three stories and explain the various resonances between title and narrative. Is there a trend you can identify, in how Adichie uses the titles to add to the meaning of the stories?
Essay Topic 3
When is The Thing Around Your Neck most itself? What is its characteristic passage, or moment? What makes that moment or passage the most representative of the book as a whole? Are there any places where the book seems to depart from its typical self, as if to become a different book?
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