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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What inspires Kemberi to give a speech in Chapter 13?
(a) Women were forced to pay exorbitant taxes on goods.
(b) A woman was raped by a policeman.
(c) A young orphan died from starvation.
(d) A mudslide had caused sanitation problems in the town.

2. As revealed in the Uncle Sanya story in Chapter 1, which of the following is considered a rare delicacy?
(a) The red mushroom.
(b) Snails.
(c) Elephant tusk shavings.
(d) Zebra meat.

3. What is ogiri?
(a) A type of cheese product.
(b) Street orphans.
(c) A swear word.
(d) Coconut cake.

4. What does the derogatory term "agb'eyin-to" refer to?
(a) Westernized Africans.
(b) White men.
(c) Women.
(d) Traitors.

5. What does Wild Christian name her women's group?
(a) Many Voices, One Voice.
(b) The Egba Women's Union.
(c) Women's Advocacy Organization.
(d) The Ake Women's Collective.

6. In Chapter 14, how does Wild Christian come to the aid of a local chief?
(a) She hides him so he is not beaten by the mob.
(b) She gives him money after his belt pouch was stolen.
(c) She helps him to read a letter from the British government.
(d) She testifies in his defense at trial.

7. What possibility drives Wole into a depression in Chapter 11?
(a) The possibility he will never be able to attend college.
(b) The possibility his baby sister may die.
(c) The possibility that Hitler may win World War II.
(d) The possibility that Essay may die.

8. How does Wole react to the rite of manhood he endures in Chapter 9?
(a) Wole laughs during the process, and Father thinks he is going mad.
(b) Wole endures the pain easily, and is congratulated by Father.
(c) Wole nearly dies, and is rushed to the hospital.
(d) It is so painful, Wole sometimes feels as if he is in a dream.

9. Where does Sorowanke live, according to Chapter 10?
(a) In a shanty town by the river.
(b) The parking lot of a McDonald's.
(c) Dayisi's Walk.
(d) Mr. B's house.

10. How long does the mob violence at the Alake compound last?
(a) A day.
(b) A year.
(c) A week.
(d) A month.

11. What rite of manhood does Wole endure at the end of Chapter 9?
(a) Scarification.
(b) Wole is forced to fight several men in the village.
(c) A hunt for a wild boar.
(d) Wole is forced to sleep in a cave for four days.

12. What positive omen takes place during the protest at the end of Chapter 14?
(a) A baby girl is born.
(b) A cow joins the crowd.
(c) A soothsayer reports the spirits are pleased.
(d) It rains.

13. What is Daodu's other name?
(a) Reverend A.O. Ransome-Kuti.
(b) Alake.
(c) Aduni Mo.
(d) Da Pelumo.

14. Why does Paa Adatan feel he is the victim of racism?
(a) He wishes to kill Hitler, but feels the white man is preventing him from doing so.
(b) He believes he is not given a gun because white men do not trust black men.
(c) He is paid substantially less than an equivalent white man.
(d) The "no pockets" rule he is subject to is racist.

15. What are Wole's future plans for Mrs. Odufuwa?
(a) He plans to marry her.
(b) He plans to bring her to Isara.
(c) He plans to ask her to be his new mother.
(d) He plans to hit her for humiliating him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Sorowanke's boyfriend?

2. What happens at the end of Wee-Wee's lashing of a boy in Chapter 12?

3. What is the name of the market Wole travels through on the way to choir practice?

4. What form does the protest at the Alake compound eventually take?

5. What is tinko?

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