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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. How does the cook prove his innocence?
(a) He eats the soup.
(b) He produces a witness.
(c) He drinks the coffee.
(d) He gives Chief Koko the medicine.

2. Why does Odili hope Nwege gets an appointment with the POP?
(a) Because Odili hopes to be made principal of the school.
(b) To get him out of the school occasionally.
(c) To benefit the school's material prosperity.
(d) Because Odili and Nwege are friends.

3. Why does the girl in Chief Nanga's best story refuse to remove her bra?
(a) She has small breasts.
(b) Her breasts are ugly.
(c) Her husband cursed her breasts.
(d) She is afraid her husband will come home soon.

4. How is Odili received at Chief Nanga's house?
(a) Uncertainly.
(b) Warmly.
(c) Coldly.
(d) Unexpectedly.

5. Why does Jean say sex means more to a woman than a man?
(a) Women have sex less frequently.
(b) Women become mothers through sex.
(c) It makes woman a part of man's world.
(d) It takes place inside her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is John's job?

2. What causes Odili's division from his father?

3. To what do Odili and Jean dance?

4. What sort of buses does Chief Nanga purchase?

5. Why does Mrs. Nanga bring the children to Anata?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Chief Nanga speak to Mr. Jalio, and for what reason?

2. How does Odili describe his reaction to being a prominent member of the dinner conversation?

3. What is ironic about Chief Koko's reaction to drinking OHMS?

4. What impression does Odili convey in his description of Chief Nanga's library?

5. What odd contrast is revealed in Chapter 4 by Chief Nanga's interactions with Chief Kobino and the young man applying to be a chef?

6. Why is Odili surprised to be awakened early by Chief Nanga after his first night at the Minister of Culture's house?

7. Why is Odili concerned when Chief Nanga voices his intention to go to the hospital with him?

8. What series of events leads up to Odili's disillusionment with the POP.?

9. Why is Odili's father hated?

10. How does "Push me down and take my threepence!" become a popular Anata joke?

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