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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 book does Odili think influenced Edna's letter?
2. When Odili returns to Anata after first meeting Maxwell and his friends, where does he find a large crowd?
3. When does Odili plan to see Edna again after his embarrassing accident?
4. When does Odili feel the full weight of his humiliation?
5. Why does Mrs. Nanga feel pity for Edna?
Short Essay Questions
1. What significant action does Edna take toward Odili at the end of Chapter 10, and why is it significant?
2. Why is Couple's heckling of Maxwell effective?
3. How does Odili interpret Edna's letter?
4. What is the method of problem solving that Odili unconsciously employs while reconsidering his humiliation that occurred at the house of Chief Nanga?
5. What is significant about Odili and Edna's bicycle crash?
6. How does Odili react to discovering that Elsie is sleeping with Chief Nanga?
7. What sort of reception does Odili's political campaign receive in Anata?
8. What is suggested by the revelation that a junior member of Parliament is also a founding member of the CPC?
9. What worries Odili about owning a car and having a position of some prestige?
10. What is the confusion about why Couple is put in jail?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The major theme of "A Man of the People" is the struggle of man against political corruption. Which characters embody corruption? Which characters embody the struggle against corruption? In what ways do the struggling characters fail, and how do the exemplars of corruption ultimately falter?
Essay Topic 2
Alone of all the political characters in the story, Odili rejects every sort of political corruption. Explicate and analyze this severe contrast between the absolute idealism of Odili, the absolute corruption and self-interest of Chief Nanga, and the practical abuse of corrupt individuals by Maxwell. Who is the most morally persuasive of the characters, and why?
Essay Topic 3
As the chief protagonist and narrator of the story, Odili undergoes dramatic changes throughout the narrative, but as he is the one describing them, he does not explicitly state them. Trace the outline of Odili's character development and changes, being sure to answer the following questions:
1) In what regard does Odili primarily change?
2) In what ways does Odili seem to change, but ONLY seem?
3) What other characters and events have the biggest influence on Odili's changes?
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