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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Wole sleeps with the other children in Chapter 6, what kind of nightmare does he have?
(a) He dreams he is in a labyrinth and cannot find a way out.
(b) He dreams snakes are attacking him.
(c) He dreams he is falling down a waterfall.
(d) He dreams a 12-foot-tall ogre is chasing him.

2. What is the phrase Wole uses to describe the odor in Essay's room?
(a) Imagination stifling.
(b) Baked-in grease.
(c) Ordered mustiness.
(d) Leaden and noxious.

3. Why do the children make fun of "You-Mean-Mayself"?
(a) His bulging eyes.
(b) His great bulk.
(c) His bushy moustache.
(d) His thick accent.

4. In Chapter 7, what is Wole's baby sister dressed in when she is buried?
(a) A dress made of scraps of cloth from the villagers.
(b) A white dress.
(c) She is buried without clothes.
(d) Many pieces of jewelry.

5. What do the women do to symbolically strip the local chiefs of their power?
(a) They burn paper money issued by the chiefs.
(b) They strip the chiefs of their scarves.
(c) They break their walking staffs.
(d) They knock over a totem pole.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is unusual about the beginning of Chapter 10?

2. In Chapter 14, what unites the unions being created across Africa?

3. What is one of the concerns Daodu voices about the Government College?

4. What is tinko?

5. Who defeats Paa Adatan in Chapter 8?

(see the answer key)

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