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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Chika's mother?
(a) Ahunna.
(b) Ekene.
(c) Juju.
(d) Olunne.

2. Who are Aunty Rhatha's children?
(a) Farah and Nowege.
(b) Juju and Elizabeth.
(c) Somto and Olunne.
(d) Olunne and Ahunna.

3. What does Emezi compare this story to in Chapter One?
(a) The clouds.
(b) The sea.
(c) A meal.
(d) A stack of photographs.

4. What does Osita sometimes call Vivek as a nickname?
(a) Biko.
(b) Beta.
(c) Chum.
(d) Lorry.

5. How does Osita refer to Chika?
(a) Father Chika.
(b) Honorable Chika.
(c) De Chika.
(d) Mr. Chika.

6. What concerns does Mary convey to Kavita about Vivek in Chapter Eight?
(a) Mary thinks Vivek is not safe going around looking like he does.
(b) Mary thinks Vivek does not know how to read.
(c) Mary thinks Vivek will not be hired by any employer.
(d) Mary thinks Vivek will not graduate from university.

7. What does Kavita increasingly become obsessed with in Part II?
(a) Finding out what really happened to Osita at university.
(b) Finding out where the money in her bank account went.
(c) Finding out where Vivek is buried.
(d) Finding out exactly how Vivek died.

8. Who finds Osita and brings him home in Part I?
(a) Kavita.
(b) Chika.
(c) Mary.
(d) Ekene.

9. Who tells Vivek his grandmother died on the same day he was born?
(a) Rhatha.
(b) Kavita.
(c) Raja.
(d) Mary.

10. What does Mary say her church was trying to do for Vivek?
(a) Persuading him to become a priest.
(b) Convert him to Catholicism.
(c) Beat the demon out of him.
(d) Cooking for him to feed his body and his spirit.

11. What does Kavita's dowry consist of?
(a) Some gold jewelry from her family.
(b) Land.
(c) Animals.
(d) A sizeable amount of money.

12. How does Chika meet Kavita?
(a) Kavita is the niece of his company's doctor.
(b) Kavita is a neighbor.
(c) Kavita is a co-worker.
(d) Kavita is his sister-in-law's sister.

13. What does Maja's husband do that Maja is very upset about?
(a) He has an affair and a child with a woman he wants to bring into Maja's house as a second wife.
(b) He has lost his job.
(c) He asks her for a divorce.
(d) He has gambled all their money away.

14. Who does Osita have sex with in Part I?
(a) Somto.
(b) Juju.
(c) Elizabeth.
(d) Olunne.

15. Where does Ekene start spending more time in Chapter Seven?
(a) At work.
(b) In the marshlands.
(c) In Cape Town.
(d) At Ahunna's old house in the village.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mary often accuse Ekene of?

2. Where does Ekene want Osita to go to university in Chapter Seven?

3. In Chapter Ten, how does Vivek say he felt his whole life?

4. What physical feature of Vivek's are his parents very worried about in Part II?

5. Who is Maja's husband?

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