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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 12: Chapter 17 and 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Esi driving at the opening of the novel?
(a) To pick up her son at soccer meet.
(b) To pick up her husband.
(c) To the airport.
(d) Linga Hideaways.

2. What does Esi end up doing when the secretary is away?
(a) Typing her own proposals.
(b) Training a substitute.
(c) Calling around for a replacement.
(d) Secretarial work.

3. Why would Esi's mother have thought it alright for Oko to take another wife?
(a) Her mother was opposed to Oko taking another wife also.
(b) The other wife could bear all the children.
(c) Oko wouldn't then rape Esi if she did not want sex.
(d) Esi would have been the senior wife.

4. What does Fusena start feeling upset in her marriage?
(a) Her husband has married two more wifes.
(b) She wants to stay home with the kids but has to work.
(c) She has not managed to get pregnant.
(d) Her husband is getting more education than she.

5. Why does Ali feel guilty at the beginning of Chapter 15?
(a) For seducing Esi in the first place.
(b) For marrying Esi.
(c) For not letting Fusena divorce him.
(d) For not spending New Year's Eve with Esi.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Fusena not remember after having been away for two years?

2. What does Musa Musa do after Ali mollifies him?

3. What do both Ali and Fusena have during their initial six years of friendship?

4. How does the man who offers to help Esi appear?

5. What does Mma. Danjuma know when she sees Esi?

(see the answer key)

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