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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What best describes how Daodu handles problems in school?
(a) He lets the students handle their own problems.
(b) He handles school like a court of law.
(c) He handles his school like a military dictator.
(d) He handles problems like a sports referee.

2. What is one of the concerns Daodu voices about the Government College?
(a) He doubts they teach anything useful beyond what grammar school teaches.
(b) He has heard the discipline at the college is especially harsh.
(c) He doubts an organization that accepts only men.
(d) He doubts an organization that uses white people to teach black people.

3. What unfortunate event happens during the first week of Wole's grammar school education?
(a) He gets a detention for tardiness.
(b) His baby sister dies.
(c) He is cut with a scythe.
(d) Several school supplies are stolen by a bully.

4. What is the name of Wole's grammar school?
(a) Ake Femi.
(b) Odemo.
(c) Daodu International.
(d) Abeokuta.

5. What does Wole think about the Westernizing of his culture?
(a) He thinks Western influences should be limited to pop culture.
(b) Western influences are harmful.
(c) He believes Westernization can be the salvation of his people.
(d) He has fully embraced Western culture.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an ogboni?

2. As expressed in Chapter 15, what school rule does Daodu believe is racist?

3. Where does Sorowanke live, according to Chapter 10?

4. What positive omen takes place during the protest at the end of Chapter 14?

5. What racist view does Beere express in Chapter 15?

Short Essay Questions

1. At the beginning of Chapter 9, what apparent blasphemy does Wole commit in Odemo's palace?

2. What does Essay make Wole promise in Chapter 11? How does Wole respond to this request?

3. Describe the tax controversy that arises in Chapter 13, and how the women's group addresses it.

4. What expectation does Wole have in Chapter 9 for Isara? What is the reality of Isara?

5. What is the highlight of Wole's time on the farm with Broda Pupa in Chapter 9?

6. What problems exist in Wole's community? What are the social issues of the day?

7. What is Wole's first experience with Daodu? What is the outcome?

8. How does Sorowanke anger the peddlers of Dayisi's Walk? How is the conflict resolved?

9. Describe the process of Sorowanke finding and creating a home in Chapter 10.

10. What sage advice does Broda Pupa give Wole in Chapter 9? How is Wole later able to use that advice to his advantage?

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