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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 17-19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Obi's response when Clara goes off with the doctor?
(a) Fearing for Clara's life, he goes home and breaks down emotionally.
(b) Fearing for Clara's life, he goes to work and breaks down emotionally.
(c) Fearing losing Clara, he tries to follow the doctor's car, but gets lost and is nearly killed.
(d) Fearing losing Clara, he goes back to Christopher and breaks down emotionally.

2. Where do Christopher and Obi go to play tennis with Nora and Pat?
(a) The Catholic convent.
(b) The YMCA.
(c) The Civil Servants' Tennis Club.
(d) The British tennis club.

3. Where does the boat anchor to allow the passengers to watch boys diving for coins?
(a) Aquaspot.
(b) Funchal.
(c) Port Maria.
(d) Cameroon.

4. What does Obi do in an effort to find solace for his distress about Clara's situation?
(a) He storms into the hospital at midnight demanding to see Clara.
(b) He is so agitated that he almost crashes his car.
(c) He cannot eat, sleep or read poems that normally console him.
(d) The author writes that Obi does not eat; he pulls down Houseman's volume but then reads no poems.

5. With whom does Obi have breakfast on the first morning on the boat?
(a) Mr. Jones and Mrs. Wright.
(b) Mr. MacMillan, Stephen Udom, Mr. Jones and Clara.
(c) Mr. MacMillan and Clara.
(d) Mr. MacMillan and Mrs. Wright.

Short Answer Questions

1. What news from home necessitates Obi taking leave to visit his village?

2. What happens when Obi goes for his job interview with the Public Services Commission?

3. How does Obi respond to the two men he meets on his first day at work?

4. From whom does Obi borrow money to help out with Clara's abortion?

5. How does Obi try to help with the family's situation?

(see the answer key)

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