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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Chika after Vivek dies?
(a) He moves to America.
(b) He wants to adopt Osita as his own child.
(c) He experiences the same type of depression he experienced after the death of Ahunna.
(d) He wants to have another child.

2. Why does Vivek tell Osita he has been angry at him?
(a) Osita abandoned Vivek.
(b) Osita took Vivek's money and never gave it back.
(c) Osita lied about Vivek to Kavita.
(d) Osita told Mary to try to take him to her church.

3. When does Ebenezer begin to realize that Mama Ben is a terrible woman?
(a) When she tries to persuade him not to go see how his wife is during the riot.
(b) When she steals from him.
(c) When she threatens to tell his wife he is having an affair, even though he is not.
(d) When she tells him a terrible lie about his best friend.

4. What kind of job does Ebenezer do?
(a) He is a chef.
(b) He is a farmer.
(c) He is a vulcanizer.
(d) He is a tailor.

5. Who is the first person Juju tells about her half-brother?
(a) Mary.
(b) Elizabeth.
(c) Vivek.
(d) Osita.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who propositions Vivek sexually in a flashback Vivek remembers in Chapter Twelve?

2. What is Juju picking up for Elizabeth the first time she sees her half-brother?

3. What surprises Osita about how Vivek looks in Chapter Thirteen?

4. Who does Juju say should decide what they do about her plan in Chapter Nineteen?

5. What is Mary convinced about in Chapter Thirteen?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is one practical reason it is so hard for Maja to leave Charles?

2. Who is Chika having an affair with and why is this situation particularly awful for Kavita?

3. What does Osita ask Vivek in Part III that he immediately becomes ashamed of?

4. What secret of her father's does Juju discover in Part III?

5. How does Vivek feel about his sexual encounter with Tobechukwu in Part III?

6. What significant dream does Vivek tell Osita about in Part IV?

7. When does Ebenezer figure out that Mama Ben seems to be a terrible person?

8. Why does Charles come back to Maja in Part IV?

9. What does Vivek think about manhood as he explains it in Part III?

10. Who does Juju tell about her family's secret in Part III and why does she tell this person?

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