Short Essay Questions The 60 short essay questions listed in
this section require a one to two sentence answer. They ask
students to demonstrate a deeper understanding of the text.
Students must describe what they've read, rather than just
recall it. Short Essay Question - Pages 1-18 1. How did the
narrator feel about being back in his old village after being
gone for seven years? 2. How can you tell that the village life
seems unchanged to the narrator when he gets back after all
those years? 3. Who was the strange man in the village when the
narrator gets back and how does he describe this man? 4. What
does the narrator tell his family about the Europeans? 5. How
can you relate the narrator to the Acacia tree? This section
contains 901 words| (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page)