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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 is the name of the village?

2. What evidence does Sidi give that women are not the "weaker sex" (4)?

3. What is the formal title of the village leader?

4. What kind of shoes is Lakune wearing with his suit?

5. What does Sidi suggest that Lakunle should do if he does not like the village?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Sidi feel about Lakunle's modern ideas?

2. What is the "dance of the lost Traveller," and who plays the Traveller?

3. What does Lakunle think of Baroka?

4. How did the "lost Traveller" come to be in the village?

5. What are the qualities that Lakunle thinks of as "civilized"?

6. When the play opens, what is the understanding between Sidi and Lakunle regarding marriage?

7. What is the contradiction in Lakunle's view of women?

8. What response does Baroka have to the magazine featuring pictures of the village?

9. What happens with Lakunle when Baroka interrupts the dance?

10. Describe the setting in which the play opens.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay in which you analyze the scene in The Lion and the Jewel in which Lakunle tells the story of how the railroad was diverted from the village. What happens in this scene, what symbolic elements does it have, and how does it function in the larger work? Be sure to offer textual support for your claims.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay in which you examine what The Lion and the Jewel is saying about the responsibilities of those in positions of authority. Who shows responsibility, and who fails to take responsibility seriously enough? What are the consequences? Be sure to offer textual support for your claims.

Essay Topic 3

The village schoolmaster claims that he has "scientific" evidence that women are the intellectual inferiors of men. Faulty science has been used in this way to legitimize discrimination for centuries. Choose a kind of discrimination--that based on sex, gender, appearance, cultural background, religion, or any other kind--and write an essay about how pseudoscience has been used to support bigotry in this area. Credit all sources in MLA format.

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