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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What action taken by the drunken soldier in Chapter 8 enrages Wole?
(a) The soldier damages Essay's rose bush.
(b) The soldier urinates in the family's outside well.
(c) The soldier mocks Wole for being weak and cowardly.
(d) The soldier cusses at Wild Christian.

2. Who lives in BishopsCourt?
(a) Male teachers.
(b) Female students.
(c) The cleaning staff of the compound.
(d) It is a guest house for visiting dignitaries.

3. In Chapter 2, how does Wole entertain his guests during his fourth birthday party?
(a) Playing tag.
(b) Staging a swordfight with branches as swords.
(c) Building a small house from strips of wood.
(d) Singing.

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

5. Why does Paa Adatan wear a belt of amulets?
(a) To remind him of his dead wife.
(b) He believes they will deflect bullets and make him invincible.
(c) He wears an amulet for every Nazi he has killed.
(d) To allow him to travel between the realms of life and death.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Wole's nickname for the new radio in Chapter 8?

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

3. What does "Mr. B" do for a living?

4. In Chapter 8, how does Wild Christian react to the coming of the Bote troops?

5. What is the popularly-held belief about the Bote troops?

(see the answer key)

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