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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) Eating liver.
(b) Drinking Holy Water.
(c) Sacrificing a goat.
(d) Drinking Orange Juice.

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

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

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

5. Whose films did Okenwa watch obsessively when he was young?
(a) Robin Williams.
(b) Bruce Lee.
(c) John Wayne.
(d) Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Okenwa's mother assume he would not remember Raphael?

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

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

4. How often does the narrator say he visits his parents at the start of the story?

5. What was Okenwa's father's profession before retirement?

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