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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 the news channel in the novel?

2. Which of the following does the statue of Jean-Jacques LePieu hold?

3. To which of the following does the narrator compare Crown’s music?

4. To which of the following does Octavia compare Dinah?

5. Which of the following is the name of the English teacher at Nigel’s school?

Short Essay Questions

1. What reasons does the narrator give for liking the Mall of the Seven Myrtles?

2. What effects does the narrator note demelanization had on Crooked Crown?

3. How does the narrator report imagining Dr. Nzinga?

4. How is “the original ADZE” described (218)?

5. What does the narrator’s grandfather report as the effect when “those problems done piled up on me” (137)?

6. How does the narrator describe his preferred workspace in the wake of Penny’s death?

7. What message does Jo Jo leave for the narrator when he leaves?

8. What reasons are given for disbelief in ADZE’s complicity in the mall attack?

9. What does the narrator expect to hear from his father when he visits him in prison?

10. What reasoning does Supercargo give for resigning from BEG?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explicate the effects of the narrator’s refusal to name himself in the novel.

Essay Topic 2

Sources attest to the presence of We Cast a Shadow on bestseller lists. Assuming that sales figures reflect popularity, what accounts for the popularity of Ruffin’s novel? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

What purpose is served by the scene in which the narrator, Penny, and Nigel tour Shanksted Plantation, just before Nigel goes missing (50-54)? What in the text and experience indicates that purpose? How does it do so?

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