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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. What are Tambu's nieces' names?

2. What is the name the company settles on for Pedzi's brand?

3. What death do Tambu's visitors bring news about in Chapter 21?

4. What does Tambu puzzle over that she finds in an old school exercise book of hers?

5. What happens to Mai Taka as a result of her having gone to the movies with Nyasha's family?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Tracey ask Tambu to have her relatives and friends in the village do in Chapter 21 that Tambu is not comfortable with?

2. What do Christine and Aunt Lucia try to convince Tambu of in Chapter 21?

3. What is the phrase Tambu uses in Chapter 20 that means almost the same thing as a bribe?

4. What does Tambu's mother's outburst in Chapter 22 result in for Tambu?

5. What does Nyasha bring for Tambu in Chapter 17 from her own house that Tambu left behind?

6. What continues to bother Tambu about her job security and career in Chapter 16?

7. How does Tambu spend some of the money she had thought she might spend on Elizabeth?

8. What happens with Mai Taka and her husband Silence when Mai Taka goes to the movies with Nyasha's family in Chapter 13?

9. How do Nyasha and Leon eventually dispel the tension between Mai Taka and Silence in Chapter 13?

10. What is a major source of tension between Leon and Nyasha that comes to light in Chapter 13?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay analyzing what Pedzi's "Ghetto Getaways" idea for the Green Jacaranda brand symbolizes, and discuss how Tambu comes to feel about it.

Essay Topic 2

What does Aunt Lucia's security agency, where Tambu ultimately ends up working in the end of the novel, symbolize? Write an essay discussing how Aunt Lucia's experiences in the war are related to her decision to start a security agency.

Essay Topic 3

Consider the titles of the three main sections of the novel: Ebbing, Suspended, and Arriving. Write an essay analyzing how these three titles embody the topics, tone, and actions in each of the sections. Also discuss how the sections fit together.

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