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- 1. Multiple Choice
How does the author structure the events in the story to drive the plot?
The author uses consequence to show how Jonathan’s actions negatively affect the people around him.
The author uses parallel plot to show both Jonathan’s unique experience and Maria’s unique experience.
The author uses chronological order and flashback to show how Jonathan and his family earn income after the war.
The author uses multiple stories and multiple character perspectives to show the way different people in the Nigerian community think and feel.
- 2. Multiple Choice
What is a central idea of the passage?
A man is grateful for what he has amidst a war-torn country and he works to rebuild life for his family.
A man gets involved in several schemes after the war and he takes advantage of the exhausted soldiers.
A man tries to secure his old job after the war is over but he eventually gives up when the company remains closed.
A man hides valuable possessions during a war and he must secretly retrace his steps to collect the wealth when the war ends.
- 3. Multiple Choice
Match each underlined vocabulary word with its corresponding definition:
“It wasn’t his disreputable rags, nor the toes peeping out of one blue and one brown canvas shoes….”
Disrespectful or shabby
To transport or carry
A structure or building
Debris or wreckage
Commanding or authoritarian
- 4. Multiple Choice
Match each underlined vocabulary word with its corresponding definition:
“Only two houses away a huge concrete edifice some wealthy contractor had put up just before the war was a mountain of rubble.”
A structure or building
Debris or wreckage
Commanding or authoritarian
Unsound or dilapidated
To be dry or have thirst
- 5. Multiple Choice
Match each underlined vocabulary word with its corresponding definition:
“‘Who is knocking?’ he asked then, his voice parched and trembling.”
To be dry or have thirst
Disrespectful or shabby
To transport or carry
A structure or building
Debris or wreckage
- 6. Multiple Choice
What is the "current fashion of greeting old friends" in "Civil Peace"?
Happy day!
Happy Civil Peace!
Happy Survival!
Happy greetings!
- 7. Multiple Choice
Where did Jonathan bury the bike?
in a makeshift cemetery
in a garden
in a construction yard
next to a rebel prison camp
- 8. Multiple Choice
How many of Jonathan's children survived the war?
four
none
three
two
- 9. Multiple Choice
What is the miracle waiting for Jonathan in Enugu?
His neighbors have survived.
His house is still standing.
His car has not been stolen.
His house is completely unharmed.
- 10. Multiple Choice
How do Jonathan's children help support the family?
They make and sell akara balls.
They pick and sell mangoes.
They sell gum and candy by the military base.
They do chores for the neighbors.
- 11. Multiple Choice
What did Jonathan do before the war?
He was a construction worker.
He was a school teacher.
He was a coal miner.
He was a government clerk.
- 12. Multiple Choice
Why does Jonathan get 20 pounds from the government?
for turning in rebel money
for turning in his gun
for the death of his son
for the destruction of his house
- 13. Multiple Choice
Who speaks the story's title?
the thief leader
Jonathan
Jonathan's neighbor
the pickpocketing victim
- 14. Multiple Choice
Who does the thief leader offer to call when the neighbors and police fail to come to the rescue?
the United Nations
Jonathan's friends
the government
soldiers
- 15. Multiple Choice
What does the family do the morning after the robbery?
They decide to hunt the thieves.
They move, looking for a safer neighborhood.
They continue to work.
They cry.
- 16. Multiple Choice
Where does Jonathan keep his ex-gratia money?
hidden in his shoes
locked in a kitchen cupboard
locked in a small wooden box
underneath his mattress
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