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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is ogiri?
(a) Coconut cake.
(b) Street orphans.
(c) A type of cheese product.
(d) A swear word.

2. What possibility drives Wole into a depression in Chapter 11?
(a) The possibility he will never be able to attend college.
(b) The possibility his baby sister may die.
(c) The possibility that Essay may die.
(d) The possibility that Hitler may win World War II.

3. What is the name of Wole's hometown?
(a) Saara.
(b) Isara.
(c) Ake.
(d) Ivory Coast.

4. Who defeats Paa Adatan in Chapter 8?
(a) Bote troops.
(b) Essay.
(c) A dozen townspeople.
(d) Wole and his cousin.

5. What does the white district officer say to Beere to anger her and start mob violence?
(a) "You have pretty eyes."
(b) "You need a beating."
(c) "You women are all alike."
(d) "Shut your women up."

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mrs. B punish her maid in Chapter 6?

2. What rite of manhood does Wole endure at the end of Chapter 9?

3. What are egungun?

4. Wole begins the narrative starting when he was what age?

5. How long does the mob violence at the Alake compound last?

(see the answer key)

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