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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Opokuya ask of Esi?
(a) To sell her Esi's old car.
(b) To come with her to Opokuya's mother's house.
(c) To take her to downtown.
(d) To babysit for her.

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

3. What does Esi notice in Ali's voice when she phones him?
(a) Love.
(b) Impatience and tiredness.
(c) Anger.
(d) Nothing.

4. About what does Esi laugh concerning the African male?
(a) His demands for propriety.
(b) His insecurity.
(c) His insolence.
(d) His jealousy.

5. What does Esi see through Ali's gifts?
(a) The world.
(b) That he wants to please her but cannot.
(c) His inadequacies as a husband.
(d) Another kind, caring side to Ali.

6. What does Fusena realize when Ali's female relatives visit her?
(a) That they want her to divorce Ali.
(b) That they do not want Ali to marry again.
(c) That they have been unable to dissuade Ali from marriage to Esi.
(d) That they are betraying her.

7. To what does Fusena agree?
(a) To at least meet Esi.
(b) To divorce Ali.
(c) All of Ali's relatives' suggestions.
(d) To demand strong concessions from Ali.

8. Why does Opokuya say Esi is brave?
(a) For divorcing in the first place.
(b) For defying her mother.
(c) For trying an alternative lifestyle.
(d) For not running back to Oko.

9. What shocks Ali's female relatives?
(a) That Esi is not Muslim.
(b) That their educated daughters are not any better off than they were.
(c) That Esi will not live with Ali and Fusena.
(d) That Fusena is divorcing Ali.

10. What does Kweku say when he knocks on Opokuya's bedroom door?
(a) That the potatoes are boiling over.
(b) That the beans have burned rather badly.
(c) That Esi and Ogyaanowa are there.
(d) That Kubi is mad that Opokuya is not in the kitchen.

11. About what does Opokuya wonder concerning Esi and Fusena?
(a) If Esi would be willing to live in a household with another wife.
(b) Whether they could become friends.
(c) If Fusena would continue to have all the children.
(d) If Esi would rebel against Fusena's demands as senior wife.

12. What does Opokuya notice on Esi when she visits one day?
(a) A watch.
(b) A new necklace.
(c) A ring.
(d) A new pair of earrings.

13. To what do Ali's relatives agree?
(a) To go to Esi's people.
(b) To talk Fusena into the marriage.
(c) To stay out of Ali's life.
(d) Nothing since Ali has not talked to them.

14. What does Esi do after she drops Ali off at Hotel Twentieth Century?
(a) Drives to visit her mother.
(b) Drives out to the country.
(c) Goes to pick up Ogyaanowa.
(d) Goes to visit Opokuya.

15. Where does Ali take Esi halfway through the New Year?
(a) London.
(b) Temo.
(c) Bamako.
(d) No where.

Short Answer Questions

1. From where did Ali receive an urgent message?

2. What does Ali bring Esi?

3. In what shape does Kubi find Oko?

4. What does Ali continually do to Esi?

5. What does Ali say when Esi demands to know why he's been gone so long?

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