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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. Which of the following is Olanna drinking when she learns of the second soup?
2. Which of the following is interred in place of the slain customs officer Richard had met on his way back from Martin’s wedding?
3. In which of the following does Richard note having lived?
4. The word “ndo” carries which of the following meanings in the text?
5. With which of the following does Olanna furnish Ugwu?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Odenigbo reject the idea of pan-Africanism?
2. What chores does Ugwu adopt early in his service to Odenigbo?
3. How does Madu report having escaped the second coup?
4. What reasons does Olanna give for preferring train travel to plane travel?
5. How does Richard disappoint the family of the slain customs officer he visits?
6. What reasons does Olanna give for her parents fleeing overseas after the initial coup?
7. What virtue does Ugwu ascribe to the arigbe herb?
8. How does Ugwu’s aunt describe a refrigerator to him?
9. How do Olanna’s parents report planning to flee Biafra?
10. In what way does Richard disappoint the Igbo elder with whom he discusses ancient bronze pots?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Throughout Half of A Yellow Sun, characters make reference to “a Big Man.” How does the text define the term? How do you know?
Essay Topic 2
Kainene remarks that “There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable” (435). What is meant by the remark? What in Half of A Yellow Sun supports it, and how does it do so?
Essay Topic 3
Consider Kainene’s comment that “it’s wrong of [a person] to think that love leaves room for nothing else. It’s possible to love something and still condescend to it” (145). Is the comment correct? What in the novel and in experience indicate that it is or is not? How does it do so?
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