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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6 and 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Headmaster of the Grammar School?
(a) Reverend J. J. Ransome-Kuti.
(b) Odemo.
(c) Sanya.
(d) Essay.

2. What is the phrase Wole uses to describe the odor in Wild Christian's room?
(a) Given to change like a chameleon.
(b) A riot of smells.
(c) Hot, humid, and sticky.
(d) Sweet and airy like a cake.

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

4. What is an iyan?
(a) A see-saw playground toy.
(b) A pounded yam.
(c) A bothersome biting insect.
(d) A spirit child halfway between life and death.

5. Upon returning to Ake at the end of Chapter 3, what is the first thing Wole says?
(a) Osiki ate all the yam.
(b) Where is my dog?
(c) I am hungry.
(d) Who are you people?

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Wole's hometown?

2. What is a "saara?"

3. How does Wole get his first look at the world outside the parsonage's walls in Chapter 3?

4. Which is NOT one of the things Wole sees during his first walking tour of Ake in Chapter 3?

5. Which is NOT one of the things a punished child is subject to, according to Wole in Chapter 6?

(see the answer key)

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