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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Musa Musa do after Ali mollifies him?
(a) Takes him to see his new goat herd.
(b) Welcomes Esi into the family.
(c) Openly flirts with Esi.
(d) Gives him a wedding gift.

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

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

4. What are Ama and Aba doing at the opening of this section?
(a) Discussing why men leave women.
(b) Preparing for Esi's wedding.
(c) Preparing for Oko's wedding.
(d) Talking about Ali.

5. What is Opokuya thinking of doing before going to the hospital early the next morning?
(a) Going over to Esi's house.
(b) Taking a leisurely bath.
(c) Cooking.
(d) Sleeping late.

6. Where does Kubi and two nephews go?
(a) To get more beans.
(b) To Esi's home.
(c) To watch t.v. at a neighbor's house.
(d) To get more potatoes.

7. What does Ali do but is unable to keep up?
(a) Travel less often.
(b) Not take his secretary to her home.
(c) Calling Esi every night.
(d) Visit Esi more frequently.

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

9. What is Esi eventually feeling?
(a) Gracious towards Fusena.
(b) Unfulfilled.
(c) Lonely and missing Ali.
(d) Neglected.

10. When does Esi get really angry at Ali?
(a) Near the end of their second year of marriage.
(b) After he says he cannot visit her there anymore.
(c) After he says he is marrying his secretary.
(d) Near the end of their third year of marriage.

11. What does Esi not want to remember?
(a) That she was ungrateful to Ali when he brought the car.
(b) That Ali can have more than two wives.
(c) That she has not seen Ali for weeks until he brings her the car.
(d) That she has not seen Ogyaanowa for three months.

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

13. When do Ali and Esi go to her family's village?
(a) July.
(b) June.
(c) August.
(d) May.

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

15. Who begins banging on Esi's door?
(a) No one.
(b) Oko.
(c) Fusena.
(d) Ogyaanowa.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Esi want to wait to wear Ali's gift?

2. Why does Fusena sometimes call Ali at Esi's house?

3. What does Ali think of as home?

4. From where did Ali receive an urgent message?

5. What does Ali say when Fusena asks if Esi is Muslim?

(see the answer keys)

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