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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Two: "Esi" .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are Esi's parents?
(a) Big Man and Maame.
(b) James Collins and Maame.
(c) Cobbe Otcher and Effia.
(d) Maame and a servant man.

2. What does Maame reveal to Esi when the village is attacked?
(a) Maame wants to die alone.
(b) Maame is not Esi's real mother.
(c) Maame is waiting for Abronoma's father.
(d) Maame set the fire the night of Effia's birth.

3. Why does Abeeku give up on marrying Effia?
(a) She makes him angry.
(b) He no longer loves her.
(c) He thinks she is cursed.
(d) She tells him she does not love him.

4. Why do the English men call their African wives "wenches?"
(a) Their commanders teach them that rule.
(b) Their British women are their true wives.
(c) They do not care about the African women.
(d) They cannot pronounce the Fante for "wife."

5. Esi is from what African tribe?
(a) None, she is British.
(b) Ga.
(c) Asante.
(d) Fante.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Esi's stone?

2. What is Abronoma's nickname?

3. What does Adwoa convince Effia to put under the bed to enhance fertility?

4. How do Big Man and his Asante village gain most of their power?

5. Why does Big Man beat Abronoma?

(see the answer key)

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