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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. Besides fish, what other food item did Maria get from her exchanges with camp officials?

2. What did Jonathan's bicycle need when he got it back?

3. Who picked mangoes?

4. How many human heads are safe in Jonathan's family?

5. How did people feel about paying Jonathan the fare?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the Iwegbu family make money after moving back home?

2. Why is "egg-rasher" being issued?

3. In Paragraph 2, how did Maria get extra food for the family?

4. What does Jonathan do after acquiring building materials?

5. What has Jonathan survived and how does he feel about it?

6. Is Jonathan's bicycle important to him? Why or why not?

7. What has happened to Jonathan's town because of the civil war?

8. How does Jonathan make money with his new service in paragraph 3?

9. Describe the service Jonathan starts after digging up his bicycle, in Paragraph 3.

10. How does Jonathan acquire building materials?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Jonathan kept his money in the house in a strong box. How does this help the thief? How does this help Jonathan and his family? If the money had been in a bank, how would this have affected the story?

Essay Topic 2

Jonathan's greatest miracle is his family's survival of the civil war. He holds them most dear, above even his buried bicycle and his still standing home. How does his behavior during the conflict with the thieves and immediately after the conflict support or reinforce his high value of his family.

Essay Topic 3

How do the words and character actions in the last two paragraphs of this story embody the overall theme of survival of not just Jonathan and his family, but his neighbors?

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