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

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

3. How does the women's protest end?
(a) The women's demands are met.
(b) In an unsatisfying deadlock.
(c) A woman is killed by police officers, shocking the group and ending the protest.
(d) Several women are arrested, and the protest is forcibly broken up.

4. Under what circumstances does Wole join the church choir in Chapter 10?
(a) Wole is forced to join by Wild Christian.
(b) Wole bugs the choir leader until the leader agrees.
(c) The organist hears him singing, and asks him to join.
(d) Wole joins the choir because a member of the choir is a girl he has feelings for.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What advice does Broda Pupa give to Wole concerning bee stings?

2. What friend does Wole make in the church choir?

3. What secret promise does Beere make with Wole at the end of the book?

4. According to Chapter 10, how might Wole characterize his life as a child?

5. Odemo is the chief of which town?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Per Chapter 10, describe what Wole and Edun would do every Sunday morning prior to choir practice.

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

4. How does Wole deal with the prospect of Essay dying in Chapter 11? How does Essay himself deal with the prospect?

5. What is the general dynamic between Wole, Essay, and Wild Christian? What is the nature of their relationship?

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

7. What are two examples of racist views that are brought to light in Chapter 15 by members of Wole's community?

8. How does Daodu run his school?

9. How does the Alake respond to the women's march?

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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