African/Middle Eastern Unit Exam

Question 1

Where was Chinua Achebe born?

Answer 1

Ogidi, Nigeria

Question 2

Where was Doris Lessing born?

Answer 2

Persia (present day Kermanshah, Iran)

Question 3

Where was Dahlia Ravikovitch born?

Answer 3

Ramat Gan, Isreal (suburb of Tel Aviv)

Question 4

Where was Doris Lessing banned from?

Answer 4

South Africa and Rhodesia

Question 5

How did Dahlia Ravikovitch die?

Answer 5

Heart problems (people thought it was suicide as she was very depressed and found dead in her apartment on August 21, 2005)

Question 6

What other languages did Dahlia speak?

Answer 6

Hebrew, English (she translated English texts into Hebrew)

Question 7

What inspired Achebe to write “Civil Peace”?

Answer 7

The war and wanted to represent African people through his writing

Question 8

Amenable

Answer 8

Responsive; open

Question 9

Inestimable

Answer 9

Priceless; beyond reckoning

Question 10

Disreputable

Answer 10

Not respectable

Question 11

Edifice

Answer 11

Building

Question 12

Destitute

Answer 12

Poverty-stricken; in great need

Question 13

Imperious

Answer 13

Commanding; powerful

Question 14

Commiserate

Answer 14

Sympathize; share suffering

Question 15

Contrition

Answer 15

Feeling of remorse for having done something wrong

Question 16

Promontories

Answer 16

High places extending out over a body of water

Question 17

Luminous

Answer 17

Giving off light

Question 18

Supplication

Answer 18

The act of asking humbly and earnestly

Question 19

Frond

Answer 19

A leaflike shoot

Question 20

Convulsive

Answer 20

Marked by an involuntary muscular contraction