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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. How many years older did Chinonso say that his sister's husband was than she was?

2. How long before the incident on the bridge, does Chi say that Chinonso's father died?

3. In Chapter 5, where did Ndali travel with her parents?

4. How many siblings did Ndali have?

5. In Chapter 1, what did Chinonso think of before he saw a woman trying to jump off the bridge?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Chinonso compare the airport in Cyprus to the ones in Nigeria and Istanbul?

2. How did Chinonso lose his gosling?

3. What group did Chinonso join with his friend Elochukwu in Chapter 3?

4. In Chapter 2, what happened nine months before Chinonso saw a woman try to jump from a bridge, and how was he coping?

5. In Chapter 10, what does the chi say about the way people abandoned the ways of the ancestors?

6. What did Chuka say to Chinonso at his Luke's party?

7. What type of party was being held for Ndali's father's 60th birthday?

8. When did the testimony of Chinonso's chi begin in Chapter 1?

9. What did Ndali worry about after her father's party?

10. When and why did Chinonso leave the MASSOB?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Chinonso saw a very poor woman selling groundnuts. Why were there not many poor people before the white man came? How did the white man bring poverty to Nigeria?

Essay Topic 2

Mood is the overall feeling that readers have when reading a story. If you could assign a color to represent the mood of the novel, what color would it be? Would you choose different colors to describe the mood at different points in the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Chinonso’s father first mentioned the orchestra of minorities. What was the orchestra of minorities? What did it symbolize?

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