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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ali Kondey ask Esi?
(a) If she is meeting her husband.
(b) If her friend is married to Kubi.
(c) If she was still working in the same job.
(d) If he can call her the next week.

2. Where did Ali and Fusena go to school together?
(a) Atebubu.
(b) Kumasi.
(c) Tamale.
(d) Tema.

3. What happens when Musa Musa is twelve?
(a) He loses a goat and disappears.
(b) He accidentally shoots his brother.
(c) He breaks his back.
(d) He goes to boarding school.

4. How many children does Opokuya have?
(a) 4.
(b) 0.
(c) 2.
(d) 1.

5. What does Oko buy thinking it will be good for Esi and Ogyaanowa?
(a) A boat.
(b) A bungalow in the country.
(c) A new car.
(d) A large apartment in Accra.

6. What does Fusena not remember after having been away for two years?
(a) How it feels to teach.
(b) How it feels to not be pregnant or nursing.
(c) The way women are second class in Ghana.
(d) The social rigidity of Ghana.

7. What do both Ali and Fusena have during their initial six years of friendship?
(a) An agreement to marry someday.
(b) An agreement to be faithful to each other.
(c) Multiple affairs.
(d) An understanding that they will not ever marry.

8. What has Ali always trained himself not to do?
(a) Wake before the sun rises.
(b) Be prepared for all contingencies.
(c) Get sexually attracted to a married woman.
(d) Have safe sex.

9. What doesn't Esi worry about concerning Ali?
(a) Nothing.
(b) His comings and goings.
(c) His other wife.
(d) That his job takes him places.

10. What does Esi think about marrying again?
(a) She would like to if for not other reason than for her daughter's sake.
(b) She doesn't really think about it yet.
(c) She does not want a man oppressing her all the time.
(d) She would like to if the right man comes along.

11. Where does Opokuya say she will meet Kubi at 5:30 p.m.?
(a) Hotel Twentieth Century.
(b) Her mother's house.
(c) The hospital.
(d) Connie's house.

12. What is the understanding when Ogyaanowa goes to her grandmother's house?
(a) She will return home when school reopens.
(b) She will live there until her father remarries.
(c) She will live there until Esi remarries.
(d) She can return home any time.

13. What happens on the drive when Opokuya loses use of the car?
(a) Nothing different from usual.
(b) Kubi jokes trying to get Opokuya in a better mood.
(c) Silence.
(d) Opokuya tries to convince Kubi the whole way to let her have the car.

14. What does Ali do when he hears of Esi's divorce?
(a) Divorces his wife.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Writes Oko a sympathy letter.
(d) Courts her.

15. What type of woman does Ali prefer to date?
(a) He prefers men.
(b) He has no preference.
(c) Young virgins.
(d) Mature, sexually-experienced women.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Opokuya live?

2. Why does Opokuya say Esi cannot have it all?

3. Who greets Esi at Hotel Twentieth Century?

4. What does Oko want?

5. What does Esi confide to Opokuya?

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