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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5: Chapter 42 and Part 6: Chapter 43.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Aunty Uju studying to become in America in Chapter 8?
(a) An actor.
(b) A banker.
(c) A doctor.
(d) A lawyer.

2. Where does Ifemelu take Dike for his birthday in Chapter 43?
(a) Philadelphia.
(b) New York.
(c) Princeton.
(d) Miami.

3. How did Dike attempt suicide?
(a) By slashing his wrists.
(b) By trying to drown himself.
(c) By trying to hang himself.
(d) By overdosing on Tylenol.

4. Where does Ginika meet Ifemelu at the bus station in Chapter 12?
(a) Brooklyn.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) Trenton.
(d) Newark.

5. What is the name of the blog that Ifemelu writes when she lives in America?
(a) "The Future of Identity: Looking at Race, Class, and Money in America."
(b) "The Road to Perdition or the Road to Freedom."
(c) "The Bloggess."
(d) "Raceteenth or Various Observations About American Blacks (Those Formerly Known as Negroes) by a Non-American Black."

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Aunty Uju's neighbor Jane from?

2. What is the name of Obinze's daughter?

3. What does Jane say the biggest difference is between her home country and America in Chapter 10?

4. Where has Ifelemu slept for three nights in the beginning of Chapter 43?

5. Who says that African doctors should stay in Africa because they owe it to their country in Chapter 29?

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