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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What makes Opokuya and Esi's friendship hard to believe?
(a) They are so different from each other.
(b) One is Jewish and the other Muslim.
(c) They hated each other when they were children.
(d) One is Muslim and one is Christian.

2. Why are Esi and Opokuya still talking even though it's getting late?
(a) Kubi has not yet arrived.
(b) They are waiting for Opokuya's daughter.
(c) They are waiting for a taxi.
(d) They are waiting to have dinner with their husbands together.

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

4. Who watches Esi dress with pleasure?
(a) No one.
(b) Esi herself in the mirror.
(c) Ohyaanowa.
(d) Oko.

5. What does Esi's grandmother say about feeling grateful to a man?
(a) It creates imbalance in a marriage.
(b) It creates a trap which is hard to escape.
(c) It degrades the woman.
(d) It's enough of a reason to marry him.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how long has Opokuya been a midwife?

2. What does Esi do that surprises Oko's mother?

3. Where does Opokuya live?

4. What does Ali see as a gift from Allah?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Opokuya say about single women in Ghana?

2. How does Oko feel about the end of his marriage a year or so later?

3. About what do Kubi and Opokuya argue most workday mornings?

4. How do Ali and Fusena meet and eventually marry?

5. What does Oko do when he receives Esi's request for a divorce?

6. How does Fusena end up in England with Ali?

7. What does Opokuya realize as she is riding home with Kubi?

8. What does Oko think as he watches Esi dress?

9. What is ironic about Esi's problems with Oko?

10. What happens that pushes Esi over the edge and makes her decide to leave Oko?

(see the answer keys)

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