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The Thing Around Your Neck Scavenger Hunt: Name

This document provides instructions for a scavenger hunt activity related to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's short story collection "The Thing Around Your Neck". It includes 11 questions about the stories' settings in Nigeria, South Africa, and the USA, Nigeria's history under British colonial rule and gaining independence, ethnic and religious groups in Nigeria, and literary devices used in the stories. Participants are tasked with finding answers by researching the story collection, online resources, and their own knowledge, with the goal of accumulating the most points to be declared the winner.

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The Thing Around Your Neck Scavenger Hunt: Name

This document provides instructions for a scavenger hunt activity related to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's short story collection "The Thing Around Your Neck". It includes 11 questions about the stories' settings in Nigeria, South Africa, and the USA, Nigeria's history under British colonial rule and gaining independence, ethnic and religious groups in Nigeria, and literary devices used in the stories. Participants are tasked with finding answers by researching the story collection, online resources, and their own knowledge, with the goal of accumulating the most points to be declared the winner.

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THE THING AROUND YOUR NECK SCAVENGER HUNT

Scaven`ger hunt n. a game in which individuals or teams are given a list of items and must go
out, gather them together without purchasing them, and bring them back; the first person or team
to return with the complete list is the winner.

Name:
Instructions
Search for and find the answers to all of the questions below. Answers can be found in your Thing
Around Your Neck study guide booklet, the short story collection, VLE, the internet, or your own
knowledge. You may type or handwrite your responses. 1 point for each question (unless otherwise
stated). The group or individual with the most points at the end of the allocated time is declared
the winner.

1. SETTING: Adichies stories are set in Nigeria, South Africa and USA. Find a
map and paste it here (5 points) Circle the cities: Nsukka, Kano, Lagos (1
point for each)

2. a) Can you name the stories that are set in these cities? (1 point for each)

b) Can you find a quote from the stories which provide an insight into the
settings or find out some facts about the cities themselves? (5 points)
Bonus points for images of the cities (1 point)

3. Define Colonialism
Colonialism is the establishment, exploitation, maintenance, acquisition, and
expansion of colony in one territory by a political power from another
territory. It is a set of unequal relationships between the colonial power and
the colony and often between the colonists and the indigenous population.

4. When did the British gain control over Nigeria?

5. When did Nigeria regain its independence?


1960
6. When was the Biafran War? (Bonus 5 points if you can name the story
which makes reference to the Biafran War)

7. Who controlled the government between 1993 and 1998?

6. What are some of the ongoing problems the people of Nigeria face today?

7. Who are the major groups of people in Nigeria?

8. Explain the beliefs of the tribes/groups.

9. LANGUAGE/STYLISTIC FEATURES: Define Asyndeton. (1 point for definition.


bonus 2 points if you can include an example from one of the stories)

10. Define Anaphora (1 point for definition. bonus 2 points if you can include an
example from one of the stories)

11. Find reviews of The Thing Around Your Neck. Paste links here (1 point for
each up to 5)

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