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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 12 and 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What are ghommids?
(a) Fashionable shoes that schoolchildren wear.
(b) Gifts provided to the parents of a woman of marriageable age.
(c) Forest creatures which hunt for children.
(d) Mystical fruits that grant immortality.

3. At the beginning of Chapter 2, what is Wole jealous of concerning Tinu?
(a) That she goes to school, and that he is too young to go.
(b) That she has shoes, and he does not.
(c) That she can split a pomegranate, and he can not.
(d) That she gets the choicest morsels of bread, and he is stuck with hard crust.

4. What is a "saara?"
(a) A tree with sweet-tasting sap.
(b) A blanket used in the winter months.
(c) A gathering of both boy and girl students.
(d) A feast given as an offering to spirits.

5. What are the caravanserai?
(a) Merchants from Isara.
(b) A group of holy men.
(c) A group akin to the American mafia.
(d) Headmasters of grammar schools.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is NOT one of the changes Wole notices prior to his baby sister's birth?

3. Why does Beere travel to England in Chapter 13?

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

5. What debate do Wole and Essay get into at the beginning of Chapter 4?

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