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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's father want Ali to do when meeting Esi's family?
(a) Find out if they have a solid dowry to offer.
(b) Take a reliable person that Ali's father can then talk with.
(c) Show them his ancestry.
(d) Show them his net worth.

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

3. Where does Ali's family live?
(a) Mostly in England.
(b) Up North.
(c) Mostly in South Africa.
(d) Mostly in France.

4. What does Esi say when Kubi wants to check on Oko?
(a) She objects.
(b) She want to check on him herself.
(c) She wants him to take Ogyaanowa with him.
(d) She is happy he is going to do so.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Opokuya say Esi is brave?

2. What does Esi say about Fusena?

3. What does Esi find unacceptable about Ali's new secretary?

4. What does Kweku say when he knocks on Opokuya's bedroom door?

5. What does Esi tell Ali to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Kubi and Oko's interaction.

2. What does Ali propose to Esi and what is her response?

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

4. What is Esi's mother's hesitation about Esi marrying Ali and what does Esi think about this?

5. What indication is there that Ali and Esi are starting to have difficulties in their relationship in Chapter 10?

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

7. How does Esi being there help Opokuya out of a dilemma and what does every advise Esi to do?

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

9. How is Ali conflicted on New Year's Eve?

10. What does Ali decide to do to assuage his guilt, but how does that only increase his guilt and Esi's shame?

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