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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 type of questions do Okenwa's parents often ask him when he visits?
(a) When he will marry or have children.
(b) When he will let them live with him.
(c) When he will move closer.
(d) When he will get a real job.

2. What do the narrator's parents believe their neighbor's unusual vomiting experience was proof of?
(a) He was being punished for a wicked sin.
(b) He was poisoned by wicked relatives.
(c) His wife was pregnant.
(d) He was going to die soon.

3. How old are the narrator's parents in the present at the start of the story?
(a) Late 40s.
(b) Early 30s.
(c) Late 80s.
(d) Mid 60s.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What proof do the narrator's parents have of the neighbor's unusual vomiting experience?

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

3. Who is said to have murdered the Chief's young househelp according to the narrator's parents?

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

5. What does Okenwa think each time he leaves his parents after a visit?

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