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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Jubril's religion?
(a) Catholic.
(b) Jewish.
(c) Baptist.
(d) Muslim.

2. Emeka points out Jubril as being a ______________.
(a) Traitor.
(b) Thief.
(c) Rebel.
(d) Saint.

3. How many. pages is this short story?
(a) 31.
(b) 10.
(c) 5.
(d) 17.

4. A man named Emeka takes care of another man who has ___________________.
(a) Tuberculosis.
(b) Malaria.
(c) Epilepsy.
(d) Scabies.

5. The narrator and her best friend vacation with ___________________.
(a) The best friend's family.
(b) A neighbor's family.
(c) The narrator's family.
(d) The church group.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator note about the streets outside the apartment?

2. Why do the bus passengers side with Jubril against the village chief?

3. What differences do the two friends have?

4. Whom does Jubril ask to come on the bus to settle the matter about his seat?

5. The chief offers some crackers to Jubril on what condition?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are the narrator and Selam no longer allowed to play together?

2. Who is Jubril and why must he disguise his religious identity aboard a bus headed out of the city?i

3. How is the story, "What Language is That"? different from the other stories in this book?

4. What does the Chief signify in the story?

5. Why does Akpan choose second person narration for the story?

6. How do the policemen who take the sick man off the bus represent the corruption that exists in the country?

7. What ban by the Nigerian government takes place just prior to the opening of the story, "Luxurious Hearses"?

8. What is the message of the story at the end?

9. How does Akpan's choice of second person narration affect the reader?

10. What is at the base of all the trivial conflicts in the story?

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