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Never Look an American in the Eye: A Memoir of Flying Turtles, Colonial Ghosts, and the Making of a Nigerian American Quiz

Ndibe, Okey

This Study Guide consists of approximately 49 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Never Look an American in the Eye.

Never Look an American in the Eye: A Memoir of Flying Turtles, Colonial Ghosts, and the Making of a Nigerian American by Ndibe, Okey

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+Chapters Summary and Analysis

English Dreams, Communist Fantasies, and American Wrestling

Never Look an American in the Eye – Sleepless in New York

Nigerian, Going Dutch – Fitting the Description

Are You Okay? - On a Croc’s Back, America-bound

Will Edit For Food – Lying to Be a Writer

Writing, Reading, Food, Some Ass Kicking - A Brand-New American

An African Folktale, a Wall Street Lesson - A Dying Father, Dreams of Burma and England

Wole Soyinka Saves My Christmas – Acknowledgements

Symbols and Symbolism

Themes and Motifs

Styles

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

How does Ndibe feel after African Commentary folds? (from Will Edit For Food – Lying to Be a Writer)

He sees a silver lining in the opportunity to become a novelist.

He resents Achebe for asking him to become the editor of a doomed magazine.

He is glad, because he was ready to do something else.

He is heartbroken that the magazine's big ambitions were not fulfilled.

2.

How does Ndibe characterize British colonial power in Nigeria in his lifetime? (from English Dreams, Communist Fantasies, and American Wrestling)

He describes it as culturally persistent, even though Nigeria has gained independence.

He describes British attempts to exercise their power as ridiculous.

He celebrates that Nigerians are free of British imperialism.

He thinks that independence might as well never have happened, because little has changed.

3.

How is Tortoise characterized in Igbo folklore? (from An African Folktale, a Wall Street Lesson - A Dying Father, Dreams of Burma and England)

He is a trickster who also has sympathetic qualities.

He is a hero who helps the land animals.

He is an all-powerful god.

He is always a villain and a thief.

4.

What does Ndibe assume is the reason the police officer approaches him? (from Nigerian, Going Dutch – Fitting the Description)

The police officer assumes Ndibe is a criminal because of his skin color.

Ndibe looked the police officer in the eye.

The police officer has made an innocent mistake.

The police officer is looking for a bank robber.

5.

Why does Ndibe have trouble describing winter to his family back home? (from Never Look an American in the Eye – Sleepless in New York)

They do not have a point of reference for what winter is like.

He is ashamed that he forgot a winter coat.

Nigerians aren't familiar with the term "winter."

He does not want to worry them.

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