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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 does Tade ask Korede for in "Break"?

2. Where does Aunty Taiwo suggest a venue for the ten-year anniversary of Korede's father's death in "Father"?

3. Where does Korede describe the hardest place to clean up blood in "Bleach"?

4. What does Korede mix with water to pour over the blood stain in the trunk of her car in "Bleach"?

5. Who is the hospital receptionist that deals with the impatient man in the beginning of "Reception"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the crime scene covered up after Ayoola's murder in the beginning of the novel?

2. What is remarkable about Tade's singing in "Song"?

3. What is the inciting incident in My Sister, the Serial Killer? How does this event propel the action forward?

4. From what narrative perspective is the novel related? Why is this important?

5. Where does Korede work? How is this setting described?

6. What is exposition and how is it related in My Sister, the Serial Killer?

7. What is Korede's relationship with her mother like?

8. How is the painting described that hangs over the piano in Korede's family's home?

9. What is the significance of poetry in My Sister, the Serial Killer?

10. How is police corruption illustrated in "Traffic"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss the character of Gboyega in My Sister, the Serial Killer. How does Ayoola know this character? What does Korede observe about him when she meets him? What happens to Gboyega?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze and discuss the narrative style of the novel. From what perspective is the story related? In what tense is it related? How do these choices by author Oyinkan Braithwaite affect the novel? How reliable would you describe the narrator of the story?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the symbolism of Ayoola's knife in My Sister, the Serial Killer. Where did Ayoola get the knife? How many men has she used the knife on? What does the knife represent symbolically?

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