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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the majority of Ake's residents react to the new radio?
(a) They begin to write their own radio plays.
(b) They start a collection to travel to see Milton Berle.
(c) The residents stage a series of all-night dance-a-thons.
(d) The news causes hysteria in the town.

2. Which is NOT a name given to the master of Wole's parsonage compound?
(a) Wild Man.
(b) Canon.
(c) Pa Delumo.
(d) Reverend.

3. What name does Mrs. Odufuwa give Wole?
(a) Lagilagi.
(b) Osiki.
(c) Egungun.
(d) Froo Froo.

4. In Chapter 7, what does the baby return from the hospital with?
(a) A miniature version of an iron lung machine.
(b) A cast around both feet.
(c) A plaster cast around her torso.
(d) Two long feeding tubes inserted into her arms.

5. In Chapter 8, how does Wild Christian react to the coming of the Bote troops?
(a) She invites them to her shop, and charges them double.
(b) Fearful of their reputation, she closes her shop for the day.
(c) She invites them to her shop, and gives them steep discounts on her goods.
(d) She spits in a troop's face, and orders Paa Adatan to attack them.

6. What is Wole's memorable experience the first time he ventures outside the parsonage's walls in Chapter 3?
(a) He is exposed to a marching band.
(b) For the first time, he eats a delicious variety of pounded yam.
(c) He is kidnapped by a homeless man.
(d) He sees a naked woman bathing.

7. Who saves Wole from a savage beating at the end of Chapter 5?
(a) Wild Christian.
(b) Essay.
(c) Tinu.
(d) Mr. B.

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

9. How does Wole get his first look at the world outside the parsonage's walls in Chapter 3?
(a) He trespasses into the church bell tower.
(b) He is rushed to a hospital.
(c) He is hoisted onto a ladder which overlooks the compound's walls.
(d) He sits with his family on their roof during a fireworks display.

10. Why does Wild Christian admonish Essay at the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) Essay is indulging Wole too often with sweet treats.
(b) Essay is instilling an argumentative spirit in Wole.
(c) Essay is beating Wole unnecessarily.
(d) Wole is making mischief, and Essay is doing nothing to stop him.

11. Wole begins the narrative starting when he was what age?
(a) Eight.
(b) Three.
(c) Fourteen.
(d) Four.

12. What are egungun?
(a) Candles used during religious ceremonies.
(b) Mysterious ancestral spirits.
(c) The parsonage school's official rules of conduct.
(d) Two-story houses common throughout Ake.

13. Who is "Tinu?"
(a) Wole's great aunt.
(b) Headmaster of the Grammar School.
(c) Wole's older sister.
(d) A local mystic.

14. What was contained in Father's "mystery parcels" in Chapter 5?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Shoes.
(c) Musical scores.
(d) Smoked meats.

15. How did Essay get his name?
(a) His real initials are S.A., and Essay is a soundalike name.
(b) Essay calls everyone by the familiar "Ese."
(c) He is a masterful writer.
(d) "Essay" is an onomatopoeia for the sound a snake makes, and Essay is mistrusted like a snake.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wole believe about the pomegranate fruit in Chapter 1?

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

3. What is the occupation of the first white person Wole ever sees in Chapter 3?

4. When Wole sleeps with the other children in Chapter 6, what kind of nightmare does he have?

5. Popularization of the radio in Chapter 8 has people around Ake saying what catch phrase?

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