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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What trouble does You-Mean-Mayself cause Essay and the household?
(a) He mooches food from the family.
(b) He refuses to pay back a significant loan.
(c) He plays his accordion at all hours of the night.
(d) He steals the radio.

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

3. What do Essay and Christian accuse the maid of in Chapter 7?
(a) Not cleaning the sleeping mat.
(b) Having sex with a young man when they were away.
(c) Dropping the new baby.
(d) Stealing powdered milk.

4. What activity did Wole do every New Year?
(a) Wole visited a soup kitchen and volunteered.
(b) Wole took a day-long walking trip around Ake.
(c) Wole visited his grandparents in Isara.
(d) Wole attended a long church service.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What trick does Essay play on Wole with a light bulb in Chapter 8?

2. In Chapter 4, how does Wole counter the accusation that he has a fear of water?

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

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

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

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