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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 does Okenwa say some Nigerians believed could cure diabetes?
(a) Sacrificing a goat.
(b) Drinking Holy Water.
(c) Eating liver.
(d) Drinking Orange Juice.

2. What is the name of the Chief who young house help had mysteriously died according do the narrator's parents?
(a) Chief Okey.
(b) Chief Okeke.
(c) Chief Okwi.
(d) Chief Okenwa.

3. What did Okenwa's parents often do in the evenings at home when he as young?
(a) Play with him.
(b) Watch movies together.
(c) Grade papers and ignore each other.
(d) Read to each other.

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

5. What do the narrator's parents often watch on television at the start of the story?
(a) All My Children.
(b) American Idol.
(c) Animal Planet.
(d) Cat videos on YouTube.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Okenwa's maternal grandparents dislike Okenwa's father?

2. What was Okenwa's mother's profession before retirement?

3. What is something that the narrator says has changed physically about his parents since retirement?

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

5. Why was the houseboy just before Raphael fired?

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