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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 does Ali say when Esi demands to know why he's been gone so long?
(a) He says he was away on business and tried to call.
(b) He says his daughter was ill.
(c) He says Fusena was ill.
(d) He says his mother needed him back in the country.

2. What does Esi say her mother does not like about Esi and Ali's possible marriage?
(a) Esi getting pregnant anymore since the first pregnancy almost kills her.
(b) Esi keeping her job.
(c) Esi being a second wife.
(d) Esi living in a different town from Ali.

3. What does Esi wonder about concerning children?
(a) She wonders if Ali will allow her to have children.
(b) How they will have any if Ali is never there.
(c) She wonders if children would strengthen or weaken her marriage with Ali.
(d) She wonders if Ali is going to make her have children.

4. To which relatives does Ali finally talk?
(a) He decides not to talk to any of his relatives.
(b) The ones in Nima.
(c) The ones he is most sure will be supportive.
(d) The most elderly.

5. What does Ali seem like the type of man to Esi?
(a) One who is rigidly traditional.
(b) One who is absolutely honest.
(c) One who does not believe in tradition.
(d) One who does not need someone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ali continually do to Esi?

2. What does Opokuya notice on Esi when she visits one day?

3. Against what does Ali advise Esi?

4. What does Esi say about Fusena?

5. What does Ali's father want Ali to do when meeting Esi's family?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Esi finally make a break with Ali near the end of their third year of marriage?

2. Where does Esi go after dropping Ali off in her new car and what does she offer Opokuya?

3. What does Opokuya wonder about Fusena, Ali's first wife?

4. Why is Opokuya feeling sorry for herself and what can she do about it?

5. What does Esi's father ask Ali concerning his intentions to marry Esi, and what is Ali's response?

6. Why would it have been different if Oko had taken a second wife?

7. What does Ali buy Esi and what is her reaction?

8. What do the older women think about Ali marrying Esi?

9. Give the main highlights of Opokuya and Esi's conversation.

10. What does Esi feel after leaving Opokuya's home?

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