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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Aidoo select the time period to set the play?
(a) It is during her childhood.
(b) The date is used to mirror events in Britain.
(c) It is the time in which the legend is always set.
(d) It is an important point in Ghanaian history.

2. What type of tale is this play based from?
(a) A Ghanian legend.
(b) A creation myth.
(c) A Ghanian love dance.
(d) An African song.

3. How many years pass since the treaty is signed with the Europeans, as Aidoo sets the play up?
(a) 30.
(b) 40.
(c) 20.
(d) 50.

4. Which African form of oral literature is Aidoo's play passed down from?
(a) Akin.
(b) Akan.
(c) The African affirmation tale.
(d) Atanda.

5. How many of these relationship couplings are presented within the play?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) One.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which part of the landscape, as described in the prologue, balances out the lands?

2. Which of the following does not accurately describe Osam's character, as he is identified in the prologue?

3. What type of chorus do the old man and the old woman represent throughout the play, as stated in the prologue?

4. Which character in the story represents the antithesis of the ideal person, according to African tradition?

5. Which character in the story uses a system of projection/replacement as a way of making up for his/her shortcomings?

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