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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Ogyaanowa staying until school starts?.
(a) With her best friend traveling in Europe.
(b) With her father.
(c) At her aunt's house.
(d) At her grandmother's house.

2. How does Ali feel about his father?
(a) Ali is afraid of him.
(b) Ali thinks he is too old fashioned.
(c) Ali never met him.
(d) Ali loves him.

3. Upon what do Esi and Opokuya agree?
(a) That Ali Kondey is handsome.
(b) That Kubi is easier to take than Oko.
(c) That Esi would do well to stay away from Ali Kondey.
(d) That men are good most of the time.

4. Why is Ali going to be away from Fusena for a long time?
(a) He receives a scholarship in France.
(b) He receives a scholarship in England.
(c) He receives a scholarship in the United States.
(d) He receives a scholarship in Germany.

5. What kind of school does Mma. Danjuma want Ali to attend?
(a) Proper French school.
(b) A Christian school.
(c) A boarding school.
(d) A Koranic school.

6. Who does Oko's mother leave at his house one day?
(a) Ogyaanowa.
(b) A letter from Esi.
(c) A beautiful young girl.
(d) A baby boy.

7. What does Fusena ask Allah after Ali tells her his plans?
(a) To let Fusena die.
(b) What she is supposed to say or do.
(c) To make the second wife someone Fusena will like.
(d) To smite Ali.

8. Why does Ali Kondey come into the hotel?
(a) To meet his son.
(b) For a business meeting with a client.
(c) To find Esi.
(d) To meet his wife.

9. Where do Ali and Fusena teach after graduation?
(a) College in Kumasi.
(b) High school in Accra.
(c) Primary school in Accra.
(d) Primary school in Tamale.

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

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

12. Where does Ali earn a Master's degree?
(a) The United States.
(b) France.
(c) England.
(d) Scotland.

13. Why is Ohyaanowa unhappy?
(a) She hears her parents fighting.
(b) She was embarrassed at school that day.
(c) She and her girlfriend had a fight.
(d) She wants to go to the mall but is not allowed.

14. What did Opokuya decide early on in her marriage?
(a) To trust her husband.
(b) To do what she wanted.
(c) To let her husband rule the family.
(d) To assume her husband would have affairs and that was okay.

15. Why does Opokuya say she is going to visit her mother?
(a) She needs to pick up some of her old clothes for her daughter.
(b) She wants to make sure her mother has recovered from an illness.
(c) She wants to surprise her mother for her birthday.
(d) She is homesick.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are Esi and Opokuya still talking even though it's getting late?

2. What does Esi tell the man she is doing?

3. How does Oko's family feel about Esi?

4. What makes Opokuya and Esi's friendship hard to believe?

5. What happens soon after Ali is born?

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