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

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

3. What traditional rule has been already broken concerning Ali and Esi according to Opokuya?
(a) Esi is having sexual relations before marriage.
(b) Fusena is pregnant and Esi is supposed to be there helping her.
(c) Esi is wearing a ring.
(d) The first wife has to approve of subsequent wives.

4. After Bamako, how is Esi feeling about her marriage?
(a) She is happy Ali is not around much.
(b) She is sorry she marries Ali.
(c) She is disappointed in Ali's family's reception of her.
(d) She feels more like Ali's wife.

5. 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 mother needed him back in the country.
(c) He says Fusena was ill.
(d) He says his daughter was ill.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Esi get really angry at Ali?

2. What does Ali give Esi for a New Year's present?

3. What does Musa Musa do after Ali mollifies him?

4. How is Esi's being at Opokuya a blessing for Opokuya?

5. Why is Esi upset about Oko's mother concerning Ogyaanowa?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Esi's conversation with Opokuya three months after ending her marriage with Ali.

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

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

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

5. Who arrives at Esi's house while Ali is still there and what happens?

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

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

8. What does the conversation between Ama and Aba concern at the opening to the second part of Changes?

9. For what does Ali apologize to his people and how does he rationalize his actions?

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

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