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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 Chapter 5, where does the officer say that he is from?

2. In Chapter 4, how old is Afiya when she gets her own room for the first time?

3. How long is Khalifa with Amur Biashara when he learns that his mother has died?

4. How long after Khalifa returns home and finds his father ill does his father die?

5. How old is Khalifa when he meets Amur Biashara?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Hamza and the other recruits learn in their training sessions with German subaltern Feldwebel Walther?

2. What is Hamza's first evening like as askari?

3. In Chapter 5 how does the schutztruppe fight on?

4. How do Khalifa's parents die?

5. What does Hamza learn from the sick report he collects from the medical officer and takes to the Oberleutnant?

6. Who does Khalifa marry and how does he come to marry?

7. Who does Khalifa work for after the Gujarat banker brothers decide to transfer their business to Mombasa?

8. How was Khalifa educated?

9. How do Hamza and the other recruits spend their afternoons?

10. When and where do the British make a landing and how does their landing end in Chapter 5?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view in the book? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and characters? How does it help readers connect with and understand characters?

Essay Topic 2

Ramadhan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar and is a time of fasting and prayer. How and why does life change for the characters in Afterlives during Ramadhan?

Essay Topic 3

Artistic license is the way that an author creates, art, music, or writing based upon her interpretation of life. How does Gurnah use artistic license to create the realistic background of Afterlives?

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