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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 1 - 3 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the city the narrator's parents live at the start of the story?
(a) Enugu.
(b) Lagos.
(c) Port Harcourt.
(d) Nigeria.

2. What proof do the narrator's parents have of the neighbor's unusual vomiting experience?
(a) They read about it in the newspaper.
(b) Someone texted them a picture.
(c) They saw a photo on facebook.
(d) The man was interviewed for the local TV news station.

3. Who is said to have murdered the Chief's young househelp according to the narrator's parents?
(a) The girl's father.
(b) The Chief himself.
(c) The Chief's brother.
(d) The Chief's wife.

4. What do the narrator's parents tell him a sick neighbor from their hometown vomited once?
(a) A necklace.
(b) An old shoe.
(c) A live grasshopper.
(d) A dead cat.

5. What was the Chief's murdered househelp's liver said to be used for according to the narrator's parents?
(a) Moneymaking rituals.
(b) Healing rituals.
(c) Marriage rituals.
(d) Fertility rituals.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose films did Okenwa watch obsessively when he was young?

2. What did Okenwa love more than books and other things his parents were passionate about when he was young?

3. How does Okenwa imagine his father would have reacted to outlandish stories 15 years earlier?

4. What did Okenwa's parents put in his room, which made his "stay feel transient" (3)?

5. What sport did Okenwa's parents play together at the staff club?

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